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A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

A plant (Dionæa muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leave…

plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold. 1 Kings vi. 34.

Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.

Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]

Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.

Having many leaves; leafy.

nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. Dryden.

on English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.

Morsus-ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

To unfold leaves, as plants.

The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.

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