Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An eastern North American woodland plant (Jeffersonia diphylla) having basal leaves deeply cleft into two kidney-shaped lobes and a solitary white flower borne on a long scape.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American herb, Jeffersonia diphylla: so named from the pair of leaflets into which the blade of the leaf is divided. See cut on following page.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
jeffersonia .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
jeffersonia
Etymologies
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Examples
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So it was with some consternation that the local field botanist found two of her favorite early flowers - sprigs of white and purple twinleaf - in full bloom in the chill of late March.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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She scanned the rock face for signs of the butterfly-shaped leaves of the twinleaf
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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That's why plants like harbinger of spring and twinleaf are called ephemerals, Fleming explained: The blooms last barely a week.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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[youll need swim] Go to twinleaf town and go to the bottom. there is water. go on the water and go to the trees. there is a keystone.
unknown title 2009
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[youll need swim] Go to twinleaf town and go to the bottom. there is water. go on the water and go to the trees. there is a keystone.
unknown title 2009
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[youll need swim] Go to twinleaf town and go to the bottom. there is water. go on the water and go to the trees. there is a keystone.
unknown title 2009
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[youll need swim] Go to twinleaf town and go to the bottom. there is water. go on the water and go to the trees. there is a keystone.
unknown title 2009
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