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  • adjective Applied to various kinds of plant characterized by large leaves.

Etymologies

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big +‎ leaf

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Examples

  • Most common is the H. macrophylla, also called bigleaf, French, or florist's hydrangea, which blooms in early to midsummer with pink, white or blue blossoms.

    unknown title 2009

  • Riparian gallery forests containing ash, black cottonwood, alder, and bigleaf maple once grew on its fertile, alluvial soils but most have been replaced by agriculture and rural residential, suburban, and urban development.

    Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA) 2009

  • Olympia is a charming little city in the Pacific Northwest, set on rolling hills surrounded by forests of Douglas-fir, bigleaf maple and red cedar - a pretty, speckled egg resting in a nest of twigs.

    One For The Table: Steve Zaillian's The Grand Bazaar 2008

  • Olympia is a charming little city in the Pacific Northwest, set on rolling hills surrounded by forests of Douglas-fir, bigleaf maple and red cedar - a pretty, speckled egg resting in a nest of twigs.

    One For The Table: Steve Zaillian's The Grand Bazaar 2008

  • Olympia is a charming little city in the Pacific Northwest, set on rolling hills surrounded by forests of Douglas-fir, bigleaf maple and red cedar - a pretty, speckled egg resting in a nest of twigs.

    One For The Table: Steve Zaillian's The Grand Bazaar 2008

  • A ginko, and a California buckeye, to begin with, and in the back a bigleaf maple, a fig, and a toyon.

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2006

  • The house was nearly cloaked behind bigleaf maples with bright yellow leaves, their trunks wrapped in twisting ferns and vines.

    The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

  • Chestnut splashed through the shallow creek to the other side, and the evergreens gave way to red alders and bigleaf maples, and then to a small clearing.

    The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

  • The flowers on the bigleaf maple start to show up when the tree is about 10 years old, but trees growing in an open area start to produce flowers earlier and also produce more flowers.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The flowers on the bigleaf maple start to show up when the tree is about 10 years old, but trees growing in an open area start to produce flowers earlier and also produce more flowers.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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