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ˈunderleaf
[under-1 5 b.]
1. A variety of cider-apple. Also attrib.
1707Mortimer Husb. 540 The Underleaf..is a very plentiful bearer, hath a Rhenish Wine flavour. Ibid. 575 The best sorts for Cyder are found to be..the Olive Under⁓leaf Apple [etc.]. 1786Abercrombie Arrangem. p. xi. in Gard. Assist., Apples valued principally for Cyder..[include] Underleaf.
2. The under surface of a leaf. Also, a lower leaf.
1873Tristram Moab xviii. 353 The charm of the silvery [poplar] underleaf twinkling in the breeze. 1922Joyce Ulysses 220 The lychgate..showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves. 1969F. E. Round Introd. Lower Plants viii. 99 Yet another feature of this group is the basic conservatism of the organs; they differ in detail but vegetatively there are only three basic growth forms, (a)..(b) a dorsiventral leafy thallus with two rows of lateral leaves and a third modified row of ‘underleaves’. |