petiole

The stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem.

A slender, stalklike part, as that connecting the thorax and abdomen in certain insects.

In botany, a leafstalk; the stalk or support by which the blade or limb of a leaf is attached to the stem.

In entomology, the slender sclerite or sclerites by which the abdomen of many insects is united to the thorax.

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of leaf.

A stalk or peduncle.

The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.

A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect. Used especially to refer to the metasomal segment of Hymenoptera such as wasps.

The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.

the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf