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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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Elongate :: Elongate (a.) Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf..

Stem :: Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry..

Succubi :: Succubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila..

Tergeminate :: Tergeminate (a.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Multijugate :: Multijugate (a.) Having many pairs of leaflets.

Paripinnate :: Paripinnate (a.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

Monocotyledonous :: Monocotyledonous (a.) Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf..

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..

Quinque Foliolate :: Quinque foliolate (a.) Having five leaflets.

Interleaf :: Interleaf (n.) A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book..

Divided :: Divided (a.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf..

Rhubarb :: Rhubarb (n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant..

Quinquenerved :: Quinquenerved (a.) Having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.

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

Polypodium :: Polypodium (n.) A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species..

Underleaf :: Underleaf (n.) A prolific sort of apple, good for cider..

Pinnulate :: Pinnulate (a.) Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnae..

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

Page :: Page (n.) One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

Perichaeth :: Perichaeth (n.) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.