Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing no leaves; leafless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, destitute of leaves: applied to flowering plants that are naturally leafless, as most Cactaceæ, and to thallogenous cryptogams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having no
leaves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no leaves
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nor are there any extensive families peculiar to these regions; the only characteristic tribes being that small section of aphyllous, or nearly aphyllous Cassiae, which I have particularly adverted to in my account of some of the species belonging to Captain Sturt's collection; and several genera of Myoporinae, particularly Eremophila and Stenochilus.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Cassiae closely allied to the aphyllous species; they have only one pair of foliola which are caducous, and whose persistent footstalk is more or less vertically compressed.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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- absence of leaves. aphyllous, adj. apical adj. - at the summit or tip; Phonetics, pertaining to a consonant formed with help of tip of tongue. apicad, adv. towards the summit. adj. free from spherical aberration. aplanatism, n.
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