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A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 24mo, or 24ยก.
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The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.
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Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.
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A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
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A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,
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A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
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Having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves.
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A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
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Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
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A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
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Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; -- said of a border.
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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
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Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.
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To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
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A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles.
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The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.
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The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
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Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
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Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers.
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A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.
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