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Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..

Cajuput :: Cajuput (n.) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste..

Fanlike :: Fanlike (a.) folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate..

Heterophyllous :: Heterophyllous (a.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging..

Bignonia :: Bignonia (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus..

Frondose :: Frondose (a.) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

Squinch :: Squinancy (n.) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort.

Curl :: Curl (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken..

Gladiolus :: Gladiolus (n.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily..

Connate-perfoliate :: Connate-perfoliate (a.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset..

Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..

Hayrack :: Hayrack (n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging..

Carolitic :: Carolitic (a.) Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

Eavedrop :: Eavedrop (n.) A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.

Stooked :: Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves..

Sheaf :: Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat..

Utricularia :: Utricularia (n.) A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,.

Cuckooflower :: Cuckooflower (n.) A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi)..

Sheaf :: Sheaf (v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves..

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