phyllomanian.
/ˌfɪlə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌfɪləˈmeɪniə/ Botany. Now rare.
Excessive or abnormal development of leaves.
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phyllomania1669
superfoliationa1682
pleiophylly1869
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 916 Crosse hackings promote fruitfulness, cure the Phyllo-mania.
1671 E. Tonge in Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2073 Whether the delay of Sap, staying Fruit and Blossoms, as is suppos'd, by tying, will cure the Phyllo-mania, as Cross-hacking?
1856 L. H. Grindon Life xxiii. 202 No plant can suffer from phyllomania and be fruitful at the same moment.
1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. ii. iii. 199 Phyllomania is when there is an unwonted development of leafy tissue.
2000 Bot. Rev. (Nexis) 66 155 Virescence of flowers (frondescence, phyllody, phyllomania, chloranthy, antholysis) means the more or less pronounced occurrence of foliar characters within the floral whorls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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