Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Cassandra .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stiff leathery-leaved fern (
Polypodium scouleri ) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib. - noun A northern temperate bog shrub (
Chamaedaphne calyculata ) with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
leather leaf .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers
- noun stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib
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Examples
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A decade later, Japanese apricot, leatherleaf Mahonia and other plants are not only still alive—they are thriving.
Growing Warmer, Growing Earlier Eric Holthaus 2012
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Well yes, there is a real flower, unfazed by the cold, the leatherleaf Mahonia, Mahonia bealei.
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She squatted on a flat rock, half hidden by leatherleaf, at the edge of the water, and she looked across the lake at the tallest ridge.
THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007
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She squatted on a flat rock, half hidden by leatherleaf, at the edge of the water, and she looked across the lake at the tallest ridge.
THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007
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She squatted on a flat rock, half hidden by leatherleaf, at the edge of the water, and she looked across the lake at the tallest ridge.
THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007
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She squatted on a flat rock, half hidden by leatherleaf, at the edge of the water, and she looked across the lake at the tallest ridge.
THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007
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This stand was mainly leatherleaf that kept its broad dark foliage through the winter, but only a few small pale leaves decorated the branches of the sweet-gums among them.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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The meadow, ringed by huge oaks and leatherleaf, towering pine and shorter sweetgum, was less than six hundred paces wide, though longer than that.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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- From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin Embers Falling on Dry Grass Prologue The sun, climbing toward midmorning, stretched Galad's shadow and those of his three armored companions ahead of them as they trotted their mounts down the road that ran straight through the forest, dense with oak and leatherleaf, pine and sourgum, most showing the red of spring growth.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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Evergreen pine and leatherleaf stood brown and yellow often as not.
A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996
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