plant spine
A sharp protective structure formed from a modified leaf or part of a leaf, as in many cacti.
Opuntia leaf-spine morphology
All languages
- English
- plant spine
- Norwegian
- bladtorn
- Japanese
- 葉針 — ようしん — yōshin
- Korean
- 잎가시 — ipgasi
- Spanish
- espina vegetal
- French
- épine foliaire
- German
- Blattdorn
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