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Definition of Cordate leaf
1. Noun. A heart-shaped leaf.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordate Leaf
Literary usage of Cordate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"The cordate leaf in violets is generally associated with a lancet-shaped nectary,
which is always found when the leaf is lanceolate or truly ovate, ..."
2. The Child's Botany by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1831)
"A cordate leaf is heart-shaped, having the part towards the stem shaped like a
heart: as the lilac. ... What is a cordate leaf ? What is a lanceolate leaf! ..."
3. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1822)
"Cowled {cucullatus}, when the lobes of a cordate-leaf ore bent towards each other.
55. ... when a sessile cordate leaf embraces the stem. 101. ..."
4. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"This singular form evidently results from the blending of the base lobes of a
deeply cordate leaf, as seen in Hydrocotyle. It may be orbicular, oval, etc. ..."
5. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"The peltate leaf has usually several principal nerves radiating from the point
of attachment, being, in fact, a cordate leaf with the auricles united. 63. ..."
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