PETIOLE
- a slender stem that supports the blade of a foliage leaf
- slender abdominal segment joining the rest of the abdomen to the thorax in some insects
- the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk
- the stalk of a leaf [n PETIOLES] : PETIOLED [adj]
- stalk or peduncle, as that connecting the abdomen and thorax in wasps