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formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. -- Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon. -- Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. -- Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. -- Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new local…

off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.

God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle. Hare. Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Seminal receptacle. (Zoöl.) Same as Spermatheca.

A leaf or division of the calyx.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.

- Serrate-ciliate, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on the serratures; -- said of a leaf. -- Serrate-dentate, having the serratures toothed.

ting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.

A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

umination from. Milton. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. Dryden.

ant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. Darwin.

To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. Bacon.

Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.

ion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

A fish plate for rails. Knight. Shin bone (Anat.), the tibia. -- Shin leaf (Bot.), a perennial ericaceous herb (Pyrola elliptica) with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers.

To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

us of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.