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Leaf

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

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Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Peruse 76% connected

To observe; to examine with care.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Segment 76% connected

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange;…

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Betel 76% connected

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the Eas…

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Blade 76% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Frond 76% connected

The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a li…

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Greenery 76% connected

Green plants; verdure.

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Interleaf 76% connected

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

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Leaflet 76% connected

A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.

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Pad 76% connected

A footpath; a road.

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Page 76% connected

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…

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Pitcher 76% connected

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.

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Rosette 76% connected

An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Verdure 76% connected

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.

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Foliage 74% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Foliage 74% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Foliate 74% connected

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Foliate 74% connected

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Folio 74% connected

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

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Folio 74% connected

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

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Leafage 74% connected

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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Leafage 74% connected

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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Leaflet 74% connected

A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.

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Leaflet 74% connected

A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.

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Lobe 70% connected

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form

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Venation 70% connected

The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.

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Substance part 1

Parenchyma 70% connected

The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

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Flick 92% connected

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

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Flip 92% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Foliage 92% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Folio 92% connected

A leaf of a book or manuscript.

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Leafage 92% connected

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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Riffle 92% connected

A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is…

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Thumb 92% connected

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.

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