Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the production of leaves in unusual numbers or in unusual places.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An abnormal or excessive production of leaves.
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- noun botany The over-production of leaves by a plant (usually a tree).
Etymologies
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Examples
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= -- The term phyllomania has been vaguely applied both to the production of an unwonted number of leaves and to their development in unusual situations.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The term "phyllomania," as ordinarily used, is applied to an unwonted development of leafy tissue, as in some begonias where the scales or ramenta are replaced by small leaflets, or as in some cabbage leaves, from the surface of which project, at right angles to the primary plane, other secondary leafy plates; but these are, strictly speaking, cases of hypertrophy (see Hypertrophy).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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(phyllomania, autophyllogeny) has already been alluded to at p. 355.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
mollusque commented on the word phyllomania
Excessive or abnormal production of leaves.
December 16, 2007
bilby commented on the word phyllomania
Ah, like when a severe bout of flu goes through the office?
December 16, 2007
qms commented on the word phyllomania
The best pie in all Ruritania
Is layers of dough plus extranea!
The thinner you roll it
The more I’ll extol it,
Admitting to deep phyllomania.
November 7, 2017