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smooth-leaved, a.
[f. smooth a. 15.]
Of plants: Having smooth leaves. Chiefly in specific names: smooth-leaved elm, a large tree, Ulmus carpinifolia, native to Europe, North Africa, and western Asia, and distinguished by smooth leaves with shiny upper surfaces.
1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Acanthus, The smooth-leav'd Garden Bear's-breech. Ibid. s.v. Ulmus; folio glabro, The Smooth-leav'd or Witch-Elm. 1751J. Hill Hist. Plants 456 The pinnated smooth-leaved Sorbus. The Quicken-tree. 1811J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXII. 2248 (heading) Smooth-leaved, or Wych Elm. 1825Greenho. Comp. I. 95 A smooth-leaved plant of easy culture. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 172/2 The Smooth-leaved Pine (Pinus leiophylla). 1841Ibid. XIX. 485/1 Rhus glabra (Smooth-leaved Sumach). 1857Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 108 Smooth-leaved Alpine Willow. 1913Elwes & Henry Trees Gt. Brit. & Ireland VII. 1887 Smooth-leaved Elm... A tree, with a straight bole, and wide-spreading branches. 1971Country Life 23 Dec. 1772/2 We can be pretty certain that these trees..are forms of the smooth-leaved elm. |