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Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.

res in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

The lid of a pitcherform leaf.

A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side. [R.] Scudamore.

Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.

rm of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline. Orbiculate leaf (Bot.), a leaf whose outline is nearly circular.

Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.

Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.

The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.

An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. Rev. vii. 9.

Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.

Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.

A leaf of gold or silver.

ith a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.