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pulvinae

pulvinae is the plural of pulvinus.

Meaning of pulvinus

Noun

pulvinus (plural pulvinae or pulvini)

  1. A joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet.

Questions about pulvinae

What is pulvinae the plural of?
Pulvinae is the plural of pulvinus.

Words near pulvinae in the dictionary

  1. pulvillio
  2. pulvillios
  3. pulvillus
  4. pulvimixer
  5. pulvimixers
  6. pulvinae
  7. pulvinar
  8. pulvinars
  9. pulvinate
  10. pulvinated
  11. pulvinately

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulvinae (page history and authors); pulvinus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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