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  • adjective botany Having long leaves.

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Examples

  • To South Koreans, the long-leafed cabbage is part of the national identity as the most common staple ingredient of kimchi, the spicy pickled vegetable dish that accompanies every meal.

    Six casualties of the world food crisis Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010

  • And the Haleakala silversword, a bizarre long-leafed plant that blooms with hundreds of magenta flowers once every 50 years, is on the ropes: an ant that sneaked in from Argentina kills the native yellow-faced bees that pollinate the silversword.

    Aliens Invade America! 2008

  • Dutch Colonials and long-leafed pines, the backs of a covey of eight-year-old girls half a block in front of me, the demand from the one at their center carrying on the breeze: Bridget!

    Excerpt: Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen 2006

  • Cacti, those long-leafed spiny plants that reached heights of over six feet, were abundant.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • Of the olive-tree two varieties are particularly distinguished: the long-leafed, which is cultivated in the south of France and in Italy; and the broad-leafed in Spain, which has its fruit much longer than that of the former kind.

    The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

  • Aaron explained to Musa the function of this tobacco shed, where he would hang his lathes of long-leafed tobacco to cure from

    Blind Man's Lantern Allen Kim Lang

  • We soon left the region of the rice-fields, and plunged into dense forests of the long-leafed pine, where for miles not a house, or any other evidence of human occupation, is to be seen.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • It is said that owing to wasteful methods, the long-leafed pine forests are being rapidly destroyed, and that this industry will die out before very long because the eager grabbers of to-day's dollars, having no thought for the future, fail to practise scientific forestry.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • Naval stores are gum products, such as resin and turpentine, which are obtained from the long-leafed pines of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • It is worth watching the year round in the purlieus of the long-leafed pines.

    The Land of Little Rain 1903

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