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  • Even though its leaves look like ferns, it's still classified as a "broadleafed" (non-grassy) weed.

    Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle 2009

  • It should read “ … higher than any British broadleafed tree …”.

    Sorbus aucuparia - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • 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.

    Central American montane forests 2007

  • These conifers form stands of large tall trees that are interspaced with more classical broadleafed evergreen forests that are dominated by oaks (Quercus).

    Central American montane forests 2007

  • 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

  • Across a broad river there were swaths of totally unharmed trees and acres of broadleafed and unscathed vegetation.

    First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • 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

  • She took a chance: the broadleafed plant that had concealed the snare.

    The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

  • 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

  • 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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