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Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles..

Nerve :: Nerve (n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf..

Hypophyllous :: Hypophyllous (a.) Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns..

Coadunate :: Coadunate (a.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf..

Inermis :: Inermis (a.) Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf..

Tenuity :: Tenuity (n.) The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair..

Strap :: Strap (n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses..

Broadleaf :: Broadleaf (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit..

Apex :: Apex (n.) The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf..

Bijugate :: Bijugate (a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets..

Stipulated :: Stipulate (a.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf..

Frondescence :: Frondescence (n.) The act of bursting into leaf.

Laterifolious :: Laterifolious (a.) Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf..

Lacinia :: Lacinia (n.) A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf..

Parted :: Parted (a.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc..

Chard :: Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks..

Areca :: Areca (n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime..

Dorsiferous :: Dorsiferous () Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous..

Mixtion :: Mixtion (n.) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf..

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