noun

• A winged leaf stalk which functions as a leaf.

  ‘A colony is initiated by a single female (or, in some species, a single female with a male) who induces gall formation on a growing phyllode of a host Acacia tree.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Most Australian wattles lose these true leaves as they grow, and develop instead the leaf-like organ called a phyllode.’

  Synonyms

  stem, shoot, trunk, stock, cane, bine, bent, haulm, straw, reed