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Even though its leaves look like ferns, it's still classified as a "broadleafed" (non-grassy) weed.
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It should read “ … higher than any British broadleafed tree …”.
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The eclectic mixture of stands of majestic conifers intermixed with tropical broadleafed cloud forest, both festooned with epiphytes, particularly bromeliads and orchids, makes these cloud forests unique in the world.
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These conifers form stands of large tall trees that are interspaced with more classical broadleafed evergreen forests that are dominated by oaks (Quercus).
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Across a broad river there were swaths of totally unharmed trees and acres of broadleafed and unscathed vegetation.
Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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Across a broad river there were swaths of totally unharmed trees and acres of broadleafed and unscathed vegetation.
First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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Across a broad river there were swaths of totally unharmed trees and acres of broadleafed and unscathed vegetation.
The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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She took a chance: the broadleafed plant that had concealed the snare.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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The company was made up by an overseer with a broadleafed palmetto hat pulled down over his eyes and a clay pipe stuck between his teeth, a pale young man who acted as secretary to the master of the plantation, and by three or four small land-owners and tenants for whom Colonel Verney had graciously undertaken various commissions in
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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Ornamental trees -- the broadleafed horse-chestnut, the elm so lofty and bending, the graceful but infrequent willow, and others whereof I know not the names -- grow thrivingly among brick and stone.
Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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