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Overlapping each other; -- said of leaves whose bases are folded so as to overlap and bestride the leaves within or above them, as in the iris.

Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.

fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death. See what a vast estate he left his son. Dryden.

The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.

Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

See Eavesdrop.

See Eavesdropper.

An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen. Gray.

ay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight. Milton.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles. Loudon.

The leaves of an orchid (Angraecum fragrans), of the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, used (in France) as a substitute for Chinese tea.

The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. Dryden.

false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser.

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide,…

Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the winfs of some insects.

Resembling a fan; -- specifically (Bot.), folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.