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Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidæ, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.

Of the color of a dead leaf. [Obs.] Addison.

A combining form from Gr. a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy.

A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.

Resembling a leaf.

A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.

Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.

ding a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.

Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

s Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.

their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.

ial for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

ial for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.

Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnæ.