Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having four-leaved whorls in the form of a cross.

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  • I do not know why mine is all encumbered with overgrowth, and this so lovely that scarce a branch could be gathered but with injury; -- while underneath, the oxalis, and the two smallest geraniums (Lucidum and Herb-Robert) and the mossy saxifrage, and the cross-leaved bed-straw, and the white pansy, wrought themselves into wreaths among the fallen crags, in which every leaf rejoiced, and was at rest.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • The Dating Go Round: Speed dating offers scientists a peek at how romance actually blossoms A Maculinea rebeli butterfly rests on a cross-leaved gentian.

    Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009

  • For instance, the cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix) is not typically considered a carnivorous plant, but this pink flower possesses sticky, adhesive glands and dwells in poor soils.

    FOXNews.com 2009

  • For instance, the cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix) is not typically considered a carnivorous plant, but this pink flower possesses sticky, adhesive glands and dwells in poor soils.

    FOXNews.com 2009

  • For instance, the cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix) is not typically considered a carnivorous plant, but this pink flower possesses sticky, adhesive glands and dwells in poor soils.

    FOXNews.com LIVE SCIENCE, By Charles Q. Choi 2009

  • (ling), Erica Tetralix (cross-leaved heath), Artemisia Vulgaris

    Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

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