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Definition of leaf

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Leaf (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage..

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Reticular :: Reticular (a.) Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf..

Pleiophyllous :: Pleiophyllous (a.) Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.

Leafing :: Leafing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.

Phyllostome :: Phyllostome (n.) Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage..

Trifoliated :: Trifoliated (a.) Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock..

Hastated :: Hastated (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf..

Filiciform :: Filiciform (a.) Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.

Alkekengi :: Alkekengi (n.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato..

Multifid :: Multifid (a.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla..

Truncate :: Truncate (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather..

Tremulous :: Tremulous (a.) Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar..

Lotos-eater :: Lotos-eater (n.) One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi..

Trefoil :: Trefoil (n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.

Pecopteris :: Pecopteris (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

Leaf-footed :: Leaf-footed (a.) Having leaflike expansions on the legs; -- said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus)..

Hexaphyllous :: Hexaphyllous (a.) Having six leaves or leaflets.

Runcinate :: Runcinate (a.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion..

Plicated :: Plicated (a.) Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf..

Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..