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Leaf with uneven number of leaflets and ending in a terminal leaflet.  

From the Latin for ‘greave’, a piece of armour for the shin; preferred spelling is ocrea. A sheath, in leaves an extension along the stem beyond the petiole, in Polygonaceae associated with their fused sheathing stipules. The tubular,± translucent, brown or silvery, membranous stipules, often with a fringed tip, in the Dock family.  

With a spot like an eye (usually a zoological term).  

(Of an apex or base) not pointed, blunt, ending in an angle of between 90–180°. Blunt or rounded at the apex, the converging edges separated by an angle greater than 90 degrees. Abrupt, that is forming an obtuse angle, or somewhat rounded instead of strictly angular. Apex formed by two lines that meet at more…