Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having round leaves.

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  • adjective botany Having round leaves; used mainly in the names of various plants.

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Examples

  • From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.

    Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon 2011

  • It shelters species such as interrupted clubmoss Lycopodium annotinum ssp. alpestre, common horsetail Equisetum arvense and in the drier parts round-leaved wintergreen Pyrola grandiflora.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • A new and fine species of MENTHA. 139 A new, round-leaved species of

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • _ The green minute round-leaved plants growing upon the surface of water in ditches; duck's-meat; the

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • The round-leaved Dock, and the sharp-pointed Dock, together with the bloody-veined Dock (which is very conspicuous because of its veins and petioles abounding in a blood-coloured juice), make respectively with their astringent roots a useful infusion against bleedings and fluxes; also with their leaves a decoction curative of several chronic skin diseases.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The Mints for paying tithes, with respect to which the Pharisees were condemned for their extravagance by our Saviour, included the Horse Mint (_Sylvestris_), the round-leaved Mint, the hairy Mint (_Aquatica_), the Corn

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors — yellows, whites, pinks.

    More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

  • There were banks now, and they were fringed with green borders of aquatic plants, rushes, and broad spatter-docks, and flags, and arrow-heads, and marsh-marigolds, and round-leaved pond-lilies, and pointed pickerel-weed.

    Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • In the case of the large, round-leaved orchis, whose greenish-white flowers are fertilized in a similar manner by the sphinx moth, the anther sacs converge, like little horns; and their change of attitude while they are being carried to fertilize another flower is quite as exquisitely exact.

    Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

  • The berry of the round-leaved dogwood is of a very delicate blue.

    Rural Hours 1887

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