Definitions
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- adjective having fan-shaped leaves
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Examples
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On either side of them is a kaleidoscope of wilciflowers swaying in the wind, some tall with curved petals, others low, fan-leafed.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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Here also grew the fan-leafed palm, whose small, nearly entire leaves are used to make the dammar torches, and to form the water-buckets in universal use.
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With Fowler following close behind, the two women slipped between two driverless wagons and walked twenty paces into the forest, where the fan-leafed ginkgo trees were so thick that it would be impossible for anyone on the road — Shou or otherwise — to see or hear what passed between them.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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Here also grew the fan-leafed palm, whose small, nearly entire leaves are used to make the dammar torches, and to form the water-buckets in universal use.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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