The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
cladode \cladode\ n. a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf. Syn: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade. [WordNet 1.5]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cladode n 1: a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf [syn: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade]