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Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. [Wr…

to attest its purity. -- chop of tea, a number of boxes of the same make and quality of leaf. -- Chowchow chop. See under Chowchow. -- Grand chop, a ship's port clearance. S. W. Williams.

The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

ether downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

ed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.

Incised nearly to the midrob; as, a cleft leaf.

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.

The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

-- Compound interest. See Interest. -- Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny. -- Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk. -- Compound microscope. See Microscope. -- Compound motion. See Motion. -- Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a varyin…

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.

Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.