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Bear''s-foot :: Bear's-foot (n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic..

Betel :: Betel (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves..

Frondent :: Frondent (a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree..

Trigesimo-secundo :: Trigesimo-secundo (n.) A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty-two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 32mo, or 32?, and called thirty-twomo..

Sley :: Sley (v. t.) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid..

Gold-beating :: Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer..

Heterophyllous :: Heterophyllous (a.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

Oxalis :: Oxalis (n.) A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel..

Octavo :: Octavo (a.) Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc..

Light :: Light (superl.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread..

Biserrate :: Biserrate (a.) Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves..

Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground..

Ambiparous :: Ambiparous (a.) Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

Cuckooflower :: Cuckooflower (n.) A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi)..

Lobelia :: Lobelia (n.) A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers..

Fascicled :: Fascicled (a.) Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair..

Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot..

Water Cress :: Water cress () A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic..

Pleiophyllous :: Pleiophyllous (a.) Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.

Five-leafed :: Five-leafed (a.) Alt. of Five-leave.

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