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Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.

Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.

ft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.

Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.

ot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

Bot.), a name given to certain species of the genus Begonia, which have immense one-sided leaves. -- Elephant's foot (Bot.) (a) A South African plant (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is ba…

Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm. -- Elm borer (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles of which the larvæ bore into the wood or under the bark of the elm (esp. Saperda tridentata). -- Elm butterfly (Zoöl.), one of several species of butterf…

An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.