α. 1600s rue-leaued, 1700s– rue-leaved.
β. 1600s rue-leafed.
rue-leavedadj.
/ˌruːˈliːvd/, U.S. /ˌruˈlivd/ Botany.
In the names of plants: having leaves resembling those of the common rue, Ruta graveolens.
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broad-leaved1552
long-leaved1562
narrow-leaved1578
round-leaved1597
small-leaved1597
long-leafed1629
rosemary-leaved1633
rue-leaved1633
teretifolious1657
cut-leaved1731
longleaf1733
channel-leaved1758
halberd-shaped1770
alder-leaved1772
oak-leaved1776
holly-leaved1777
ivy-leaved1789
halberd-headed1795
daisy-leaved1796
narrow-leaf1804
oblique-leaved1807
sword-leaved1807
wing-leaved1822
flaggy1842
curly1845
macrophyllous1857
parvifolious1857
shield-leaved1860
curled1861
symphyllous1877
beak-leaved188.
stenophyllous1880
thread-leaved1884
megaphyllous1901
little leaf1908
ivy-leaf1909
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. xxxlxxi. 965 Rue leaued Crowfoot.
1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Whitlow grasse, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Rue leafed Whitlow grasse, Par. rutaceo fol.
1744 T. Birch Life Boyle in R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. p. cxlvii Rue-leaved whitlow grass.
1777 E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 102 Saxifraga tridactylites.., Rue-leaved Saxifrage, or Whitlow-grass.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 52 A. Thalictroides. Meadow Rue-leaved Anemone.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 183 The rue-leaved spleen-wort (A. ruta muraria), grows abundantly in both islands on walls and churches.
1952 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 42 137 Crytolepis Fern: American Wall-rue,..Rue Spleenwort, Rue-leaved Spleenwort.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 179/1 Rue-leaved saxifrage, S. tridactylites, is a small annual,..readily identified by its three-lobed, often red-tinged, leaves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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