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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having two different kinds of leaves on the same stem, as Potamogeton heterophyllus, which has broad floating leaves, with narrow leaves submerged in the water.
- In Zoöl., pertaining to or having the characters of the Heterophylli, as an ammonite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
leaves ofdifferent types upon the sameplant
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Examples
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Descriptive botanists recognise this occurrence in the case of leaves, and apply the epithet heterophyllous to plants possessed of these variable foliar characters.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Such cases differ but little from the so-called {383} heterophyllous varieties, in which the tree habitually bears leaves of various forms; but it is probable that most heterophyllous trees have originated as seedlings.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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There is another variety which bears on the same tree differently shaped leaves, like the heterophyllous hornbeam; this tree is also remarkable from having pendulous branches, and bearing elongated, large, thin-shelled nuts. [
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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