Word Meanings - POLYPHYLLOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.

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• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• LEAVEN
  alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
• LEAVINGS
  1. Things left; remnants; relics. 2. Refuse; offal.
• LEAVINESS
  Leafiness.
• PERIANTHIUM
  The perianth.
• LEAVENOUS
  Containing leaven. Milton.
• LEAVER
  One who leaves, or withdraws.
• CALYX
  The covering of a flower. See Flower. Note: The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal.
• LEAVE
  To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
• LEAVY
  Leafy. Chapman.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• PERIANTH
  The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished. A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• GONOCALYX
  The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• FORLEAVE
  To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
• SLEAVED
  Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
• CLEAVAGE
  The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment
• DISLEAVE
  To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.