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Meaning of "leaf gap" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LEAF GAP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEAF GAP

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Leaf gap is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LEAF GAP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Leaf gap

A leaf gap is a space in the stem of a plant through which the leaf grows. The leaf is connected to the stem by the leaf trace, which grows through the leaf gap. The leaf gap is a break in the vascular tissue of a stem above the point of attachment of a leaf trace. It exists in the nodal region of the stem as a "gap in the continuity of the primary vascular cylinder above the level where a leaf trace diverges toward a leaf. This gap is filled with parenchyma tissue".

Definition of leaf gap in the English dictionary

The definition of leaf gap in the dictionary is a region of parenchyma cells in the vascular tissue of flowering plants and some ferns, situated above a leaf trace.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEAF GAP

leaf
leaf beet
leaf beetle
leaf bud
leaf fat
leaf gelatine
leaf insect
leaf miner
leaf monkey
leaf mould
leaf peeper
leaf sheath
leaf sight
leaf spot
leaf spring
leaf tea
leaf tobacco
leaf trace
leaf-climber
leaf-hopper

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEAF GAP

age gap
bridge a gap
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dollar gap
energy gap
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gender gap
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Synonyms and antonyms of leaf gap in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «leaf gap» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEAF GAP

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Translator English - Chinese

叶隙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

brecha de la hoja
570 millions of speakers

English

leaf gap
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पत्ती की खाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفجوة رقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лист разрыв
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

folha gap
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাতা ফাঁক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

écart feuille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jurang daun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blattlücke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

葉の隙間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잎 간격
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Leaf gap
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khoảng cách lá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இலை இடைவெளி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पानांचे अंतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yaprak boşluğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

foglia gap
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

liść luka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лист розрив
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Gap frunze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φύλλο κενό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blaar gaping
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bladgapet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blad gap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of leaf gap

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEAF GAP»

The term «leaf gap» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.205 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LEAF GAP» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEAF GAP»

Discover the use of leaf gap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to leaf gap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Plant Systematics
As discussed in Chapter 4, the first sporophytic leaves, having only a single, generally unbranched vein and lacking a leaf gap, are called lycophylls ( essentially equivalent to microphylls ); lycophylls also possess an intercalary meristem (at ...
Michael G. Simpson, 2011
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An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development: Plant ...
Note the leaf gap and its positional relationship to the leaf trace. (c) Longitudinal view of nodal structure along the plane indicated by the vertical dashed line in (a) . Note the form of the leaf gap. stems with siphonosteles, such as those of many ...
Charles B. Beck, 2010
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World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering ...
Effects of Static Dosimetric Leaf Gap on MLC-based Small Beam Dose Distribution for Intensity Modulated Radiosurgery Jeong-Woo Lee1,2, Semie Hong2, Yon-Lae Kim2, Kyoung-Sik Choi3, Jin-Beom Chung1,4, Doo-Hyun Lee1, 5 and ...
Sun I. Kim, Tae S. Suh, 2007
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Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical ...
... above the geometrical distance between leaf tips (figure 3. 1 5). This equivalent shift has sometimes been called a leaf-gap offset and must be determined for each MLC. The reason is that the effective widening can be a significant fraction of ...
S. Webb, 2004
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Annals of Botany
While the first leaf-gap is closing and the second is forming, an internal endodermis appears in the pith. It is at first incomplete (4 a), but soon becomes a complete tube (46). The external and internal endodermis become continuous as the ...
Isaac Bayley Balfour, Roland Thaxter, Vernon Herbert Blackman, 1913
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
departure of each leaf-trace this internal phloem becomes continuous with the external phloem along both sides of the leaf-gap (Pl. V., figs. 24, 25, and 26, Lg. ph.) The external phloem presents the same peculiarities as that in the modern ...
‎1907
7
The New Phytologist
Almost as much importance has been attached to the absence of a leaf-gap in the Lycopsida as to their microphylly. Dr. Jeffrey has recently asserted that the gap in the wood reported by Miss Sykes (39) at the departure of the sporophyll trace ...
Sir Arthur George Tansley, 1908
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Ecological Strategies of Xylem Evolution
In this example, lateral traces as well as the main trace depart from a leaf gap and enter a petiole. In some dictyostelic ferns, such as Bolbitis diversifolia, figured by Ogura (1972, p. 56), leaf traces mostly depart from the lateral margins of the ...
Sherwin John Carlquist, 1975
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Objective Botany
Leaf trace Outer endodermis ^uter pericycle Outer phloem Xylem Inner phloem Inner pericycle endodermis endodermis Pericycle Xylem Inner phloem Inner pericycle endodermis Leaf gap Leaf trace Fig. 109. Different types of steles, ...
Dr. N.P. Saxena
10
Contemporary problems in plant anatomy
Distal to the departure of a particular leaf from the stem, the two meristeles which border the leaf gap fuse and thus close the gap. Distal to the level where a particular leaf gap closes, the leaf gap for the next leaf in the orthostichy opens. II.
Richard White, 1984

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