Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many leaves.
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- adjective botany Having many
leaves .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(A VI iv 1538/AG 39) So, is this world of genocide and natural disaster better than a world containing only one multifoliate rose?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007
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Ezekiel saw the wheels within wheels of Cherubim (Chs. 1 and 10); the multifoliate rose of
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968
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My email address, multifoliate, literally means "many leaves", but it also refers to the Virgin Mary.
Beyond Meds 2008
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My email address, multifoliate, literally means "many leaves", but it also refers to the Virgin Mary.
Beyond Meds 2008
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My email address, multifoliate, literally means "many leaves", but it also refers to the Virgin Mary.
Beyond Meds 2008
ofravens commented on the word multifoliate
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
from "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot
(although the first poem this word makes me think of is always 'somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond')
April 5, 2008
yarb commented on the word multifoliate
I adore the rhyme in the last stanza of "somewhere".
April 5, 2008