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Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.

A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.

Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

See Jeffersonia.

A prolific sort of apple, good for cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennæ, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.

Any plant of the American genus Hydrophyllum, herbs having white or pale blue bell-shaped flowers. Gray.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf. Gray. Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle. Eaton.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf.

Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.

ng in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

uit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

culate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins. The ribbing of the leaf, and the anastomosing network of its vessels. I. Taylor.

An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. -- Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. -- Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. --…

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.