| 单词 | spreading-leaved |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspreading-leaved C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives designating plants or plant organs with spreading parts (see sense 1c), as spreading-flowered, spreading-leaved, etc. ΚΠ 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea I. 195 Under yond spreading leaved tree,..Purest vermilion there did seek For harbour in her lovely cheek. 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 1 Spreading-flowered Indian Reed. 1831 G. Don Gen. Syst. Gardening & Bot. I. 685/2 C[hisocheton] patens.., leaflets oblong; panicles spreading, much branched... Spreading-panicled Chisocheton. 1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 194 Talinum patens, Spreading-flowered Talinum. 1894 Gardeners' Chron. 13 Jan. 49/2 By spreading-petalled flowers is meant such as have long spreading florets which only slightly incurve at the points. 1960 L. Abrams Illustr. Flora Pacific States IV. 322 Heads small, usually numerous and racemosely arranged on the arching branches on short, minutely spreading-bracted branchlets. 1992 R. Long Under Baobab Tree 161 When it's the rainy season, most people use the large spreading-fingered leaves of the ‘fan’ palm-tree to keep the rain off their heads. 2011 Castanea 76 1002 H. setosum..least resembles the relatively tall, axillary branching, and long- and spreading-leaved H. radfordium. < as lemmas |
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