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e cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

immerse. See Immerse. We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. into one consistent mass. By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. The indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. Sir T. Browne.

ially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves.

fleshy herb (Monotropa uniflora), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. -- Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common thr…

the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation.

Having induplicate leaves in vernation.

Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

To cover or overspread with, or as with, leaves. [R.] Howell.

boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak. One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. Coxe.

In an inseparable manner or condition; so as not to be separable. Bacon. And cleaves through life inseparably close. Cowper.

One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.…

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.