| 单词 | heart-leaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheart-leaf heart-leaf n. and adj. (a) n. a heart-shaped leaf; any of various plants having such leaves; (b) adj. (attributive) having heart-shaped leaves (cf. heart-leaved adj. at Compounds 2c).In quot. 1854: = floating heart n. at floating adj. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vi. 95/2 Is an Heart leafe, because it turns inward at the foot-stalk, like to the Heart. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 488 Calla... Heart-leaf Flag. 1827 Casket Mar. 114/2 Styrandra bifolia. Double Heart-leaf. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 194 A few small heart-leaves and potamogetons. 1890 Cent. Dict. Heart-leaf, same as heart-trefoil. 1924 Torreya 24 79 (note) ‘Heart-leaf’ seems to be the universal common name for any species of Hexastylis in Georgia and Alabama, if not throughout the South. 1985 Jrnl. Range Managem. 38 312/2 Forbs included..heart-leaf arnica (Arnica cordifolia Hook.). 2007 H. Nourse & C. Nourse Favorite Wildflower Walks Georgia 137 The mottled evergreen leaves of heart-leaf [i.e. Hexastylis arifolia] are showier than its flowers. < as lemmas |
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