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BROAD-LEAVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does broad-leaved mean?
• BROAD-LEAVED (adjective)
The adjective BROAD-LEAVED has 1 sense:
1. having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves
Familiarity information: BROAD-LEAVED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves
Synonyms:
broad-leafed; broad-leaved; broadleaf
Similar:
deciduous ((of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season)
Context examples
I had no pleasure in thinking, any more, of the grave old broad-leaved aloe-trees, which remained shut up in themselves a hundred years together, and of the trim smooth grass-plot, and the stone urns, and the Doctor's walk, and the congenial sound of the Cathedral bell hovering above them all.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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