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A fossil leaf or impression of a leaf.

nculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.

A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.

A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.

arge, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. Melon beetle (Zoöl.), a small leaf beetle (Diabrotiea vittata), which damages the leaves of melon vines. -- Melon cactus, Melon thistle. (a) (Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided int…

The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces. Gray.

metabolism. Vegetable metamorphosis (Bot.), the doctrine that flowers are homologous with leaf buds, and that the floral organs are transformed leaves.

A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.

One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.