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Definition of Obtuse leaf
1. Noun. A simple leaf having a rounded or blunt tip.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtuse Leaf
Literary usage of Obtuse leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Corolla-lobes scarcely longer than the plaits, obtuse : leaf-blades of a linear
type. 6. ... obtuse leaf ..."
2. Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories by Leo Lesquereux (1874)
"From the numerous Tertiary species of Paliurus, to which this one is comparable
by its nervation, it differs especially by its very obtuse leaf. ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"with an obovate, obtuse leaf, a -spike loosely set with 5 to 10 flowers, the
upper sepal of the flower broad and rounded, the petals bluntly triangular, ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1822)
"... where an obtuse leaf appears to have liad a piece out of its apex. 11. ...
an obtuse leaf slightly emarginated. 12. ..."
5. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"Its leaves are narrower proportionately, widely ovate, short-acuminate and obtuse;
leaf cells 5-8:1. H. palustre (Huds.) Loeske. ..."
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