Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Having filiform leaves.
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Examples
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In one case, Pryor has made sure public paths avoid the thread-leaved brodiaea, an endangered species.
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"We didn't know the thread-leaved brodiaea existed in the park" before biologists hired by the tollway agency discovered it, he said.
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