Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology:
- Bearing leaves—that is, carrying leaves about in the mouth: as, the leaf-bearing ants.
- Having leaf-like or foliaceous appendages of the body: as, the leaf-bearing worms. See
Phyllodocidæ .
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Examples
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Like leaf-bearing trees, they shed their leaves annually and grow new branches, increasing their crown every year.
4. Roof structure 1993
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Like leaf-bearing trees, they shed their leaves annually and grow new branches, increasing their crown every year.
Chapter 4 1988
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M. Duchartre [167] mentions a case in the tomato in which the leaves gave origin to small leaf-bearing branches, which, of course, must have originated from buds, just in the same way as in the _Drosera_ before mentioned.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In certain of these the florets are submitted to very curious metamorphoses, each envelope remaining, but quite green, the stamina being little changed, the pistillum changed into a leaf-bearing branch, the stigmata, etc. into two leaves.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Linnaeus, differs from the rest in having woody stems and leaf-bearing branches, the leaves being somewhat fleshy, but otherwise of the ordinary laminate character.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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This is well shown in the accompanying illustration (fig. 58), representing the thalamus of a strawberry prolonged beyond the fruits into a small leaf-bearing branch.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It is of uniform thickness, except near the leaf-bearing ends, which are thicker marked with numerous leafscars, or bare buds covered with scales, and often having attached the tattered remains of former leaves.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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In (3) the leaf-bearing staff has an abundance of conventional foliage.
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Sometimes these crystals are coarser and less needle-like, as in Fig.K. Fig. C shows a transverse section through the leaf-bearing portion of the rhizome (at a), and is rather irregular on account of the fibrovascular bundles diverging into the base of the leaves of flower-stalks.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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The leaf-bearing clays of Alum Bay and Bournemouth are well known, and have yielded a large and interesting series of plant remains, including
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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