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exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

e of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf. [R.]

Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf.

Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.

Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.

stivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.

Having five leaflets. Gray.

Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.

Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

Having five leaves or leaflets. Gray.

ess than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.

Having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.

onsiderable economic importance on account of the strong fiber (raffia) obtained from its leafstalks.

A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.

Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.

Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.

Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.

Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.