compound leaf

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com′pound leaf′, 

1. Botany a leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk, arranged either palmately, as the fingers of a hand, or pinnately, as the leaflets of a fern;
   the leaflets themselves may be compound.

• 1875–80

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compound leaf noun

1. a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk