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An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

ximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.

The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

reniform leaves, and producing long runners like those of the strawberry. -- Strawberry leaf. (a) The leaf of the strawberry. (b) The symbol of the rank or estate of a duke, because the ducal coronet is twined with strawberry leaves. "The strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on her ladyship's heart."…

Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

Placed under the axil, or angle formed by the branch of a plant with the stem, or a leaf with the branch.

Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.

eaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

Suddenly; unexpectedly. [R.] Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered. Milton.

etains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.

to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.

Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.