heart-leaf

Even if you are not a heart surgeon, you will be able to recognize the shape of the leaves on this plant, which is also known as heart-leaf because no one sat up all night thinking of something more complicated to call it.

250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998

Even if you are not a heart surgeon, you will be able to recognize the shape of the leaves on this plant, which is also known as heart-leaf because no one sat up all night thinking of something more complicated to call it.

250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998

All the mouldings were carved with the “egg-and-dart,” heart-leaf and anthemion ornaments, so designed as to recall by their outline the profile of the moulding itself.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

On the day before the deer-drive at Thalberg, Gretchen was stirring before Ottilie awoke, and must needs run out to pluck a fern-spray and a heart-leaf, and mayhap a lingering tiger-lily, that her beloved Ottilie might be greeted with something beautiful upon the breakfast-table.

Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

Gretchen was stirring before Ottilie awoke, and must needs run out to pluck a fern-spray and a heart-leaf, and mayhap a lingering tiger-lily, that her beloved

Tiger-lilies 1867

In four or five days, the cord will slough off; the naval should then be anointed with an ointment made by stewing heart-leaf root, or bearsfoot root in fresh butter.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. Richard Foreman 1849

True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.

Strife and Peace Fredrika Bremer 1833