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Definition of Leaf blade
1. Noun. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaf Blade
Literary usage of Leaf blade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"Leaf-blade usually channeled along the upper side; septa usually imperfect, not
externally ... Leaf-blade vertically flattened and with incomplete septa, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"It is larger: Ivs. obovate-lanceolate: tube of spathe rosy crimson inside and
outside, the limb white inside and .spotted outside. вв. Leaf-blade ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"ISO2) only five main strands traverse the leaf-blade, the connecting ties ...
A few separate main strands enter the leaf-blade, divide up repeatedly into ..."
4. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"not extend hall-way to the middle of the leaf-blade, when they reach half-way as
CLEFT (Fig. 13f> sb), and when still deeper as PARTITE (Fig. 187 I}. ..."
5. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"These they follow into the leaf-blade, and branch, constituting a latero-dorsal
system. The dorsal system may be entirely absent from the blade (plate 38, ..."
6. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Sporophyll and sterile leaf-blade with the apex or upper part bent down in the bud.
Sterile leaf-blade sessile or subsessile, once pinnately divided, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1870)
"In the latter the stipules are carried along as the petiole advances, the leaf
blade cannot grow beyond, and so in vernation has to lie flat up against them ..."
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