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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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Shrivel :: Shrivel (v. i.) To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up..

Foliature :: Foliature (n.) Foliage; leafage.

Foliose :: Foliose (a.) Having many leaves; leafy.

Kidney-shaped :: Kidney-shaped (a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney-shaped leaf..

Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..

Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf..

Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..

Unifollilate :: Unifollilate (a.) Having only one leaflet, as the leaves of the orange tree..

Dissected :: Dissected (a.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf..

Quinquefoliated :: Quinquefoliated (a.) Having five leaves or leaflets.

Partial :: Partial (n.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole..

Trifoliolate :: Trifoliolate (a.) Having three leaflets.

Fingered :: Fingered (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

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

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

Velutinous :: Velutinous (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf..

Plurifoliolate :: Plurifoliolate (a.) Having several or many leaflets.

Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..

Phyllophorous :: Phyllophorous (a.) Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.

Vesicular :: Vesicular (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf..