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small-leaved, a.
Also small-leafed.
[small a.]
Having small leaves.
1699M. Lister Journey to Paris 209 The Tree most in use here, was the small-leaved Horne-Beam. 1731P. Miller Gardeners Dict. s.v. Tilia, The small-leav'd Lime⁓tree. 1827Griffith tr. Cuvier V. 80 Rhinopoma Microphylla (Small-leaved Rhinopome Bat). 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 50 Graceful tufts Of small-leaved ferns. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Pl. 561 Laportea photiniphylla... Small-leaved Nettle. Ibid. 466 Eucalyptus hæmastoma... In the extreme south a variety sometimes goes by the name of ‘Rough’, or ‘Small-leaved Stringybark’. 1962R. Page Educ. Gardener v. 159 The small-leaved elm Ulmus pumila..seems resistant to elm-disease. 1967Coast to Coast 1965–6 209 The dunes gave way to the..hardy small-leafed bushes. 1979P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express xxi. 322 These sparse, small-leaved thorn bushes create the illusion of green. |