Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having broad or relatively broad leaves rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves, in contrast to needlelike or scalelike leaves.
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- adjective Having relatively
broad leaves
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves
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Examples
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Everything was strange to his eye—the broad-leaved bushes, the gnarled trunks of the tall trees, the curious-looking fruit hanging here and there, the vines that twined upward into the green distance.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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There is one other orchid; the exotic broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine.
Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011
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Everything was strange to his eye—the broad-leaved bushes, the gnarled trunks of the tall trees, the curious-looking fruit hanging here and there, the vines that twined upward into the green distance.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Everything was strange to his eye—the broad-leaved bushes, the gnarled trunks of the tall trees, the curious-looking fruit hanging here and there, the vines that twined upward into the green distance.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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There is one other orchid; the exotic broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine.
Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011
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There is one other orchid; the exotic broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine.
Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011
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“In more polite terms, you've got needle-leaved trees, and broad-leaved.”
Art Van Stiffel, Deciduous Tree Lawyer Con Chapman 2011
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Everything was strange to his eye—the broad-leaved bushes, the gnarled trunks of the tall trees, the curious-looking fruit hanging here and there, the vines that twined upward into the green distance.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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There is one other orchid; the exotic broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine.
Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011
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Perforating this ecoregion are large areas of campinarana, a patchwork of broad-leaved meadows with dwarf shrubs, and isolated shrublands, both growing on bleached white-sand soils and subject to shallow and intermittent flooding.
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