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The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet.
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The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach.
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Examples of midribs in a Sentence
The fruit is edible and its juice is made into beer; the sap of the tree is made into wine, and its pith into bread; the leaves furnish an excellent thatch, and the fibre extracted from their midribs is used f or fish lines, cordage, hammocks, nets, &c.; and the wood is hard and makes good building' material.
Metallic blue green with red midribs on red stalks, these leaves are magnificent.
It has been suggested that the red pigment Anthocyan, which is found very commonly in young developing shoots, petioles and midribs, effects a conversion of light rays into heating ones, so facilitating the metabolic processes of the plant.
Cilian Beet (Beta) - B. cicla variegata is a variety of common Beet, the leaves being more than 3 feet long, vivid in color, their midribs varying from dark waxy orange to vivid crimson.
When unfolding they remind one of a finely-cut umbelliferous plant in spring; when fully grown the midribs are red; and in autumn the leaves glow off into a bright color after the fashion of American shrubs.
It differs from A. glandulosa chiefly in its spiny bark and in the red midribs of its leaves.