একটি উদ্ভিদ জীবন শুরুতে হ্রাস বা সবে মাত্র উন্নত পাত (অর্থাত cotyledons

cataphyll's Usage Examples:

In plant morphology, a cataphyll (sometimes also called a cataphyllum, or cataphyll leaf) is a reduced, small leaf.

branches, about 6 meters high and 30 cm in diameter, covered with linear cataphyll, covered with a thick yellowish hairs.

The lowest leaf is shortened to a cataphyll.

The stem is short, erect and unbranched with a leaf-like cataphyll at each node.

Philodendrons also produce cataphylls, which are modified leaves that surround and protect the newly forming leaves.

  The cataphylls, which are formed around any new leaf as it is forming remain semi-intact.

The leaves are pinnate, spirally arranged, interspersed with cataphylls, with leaflets not articulated and lacking a midrib.

The axillary buds are dormant in scaly cataphylls, but the apical bud is bare, exposing emerging leaf rudiments.

The outer bulb scales (cataphyll) are papyraceous, colourless or violaceous (Zoellnerallium).

classical Allium with tripartite inner filaments and only one thick storage cataphyll.

cataphyll's Meaning':

a reduced or scarcely developed leaf at the start of a plant's life (i.e. cotyledons