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t, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.

eins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Ret…

Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.

The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.

joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.

The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.

ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.

f a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may n…

A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s

hose rudiments, and see before thine eyes The monarchies of the earth. Milton. the single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape. I. Taylor.

ng over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf. He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks. Howell. What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! M. Arnold.…

Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

A rural place. "Leafy ruralities." Carlyle.

Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.

A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.

The color so laid on. Also used figuratively. Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards. L. Wallace.

ves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.