peltiform

adj

peltiform

adj

Etymology From pelta + -iform.

1

shield-like, with the outline nearly circular; peltate

The seedlings will, in the first year, have only cotyledonal leaves; in the second, peltiform ones1831, John Claudius Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine:

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