Definition of Elongate leaf

1. Noun. A long slender leaf.

Exact synonyms: Linear Leaf
Generic synonyms: Simple Leaf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elongate Leaf

eloignment
eloignments
eloigns
eloin
eloined
eloiner
eloiners
eloining
eloinment
eloinments
eloins
elong
elongase
elongases
elongate
elongate leaf (current term)
elongated
elongates
elongating
elongation
elongation factor
elongational
elongationally
elongations
elongator
elonged
elonging
elongs
elope
eloped

Literary usage of Elongate leaf

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Cespitose, the rootstocks somewhat elongate. Leaf- blades filiform. Spike solitary, ovoid, androgynous, densely flowered, ..."

2. Handbook of Mosses: With an Account of Their Structure, Classification by James Eustace Bagnall (1886)
"It will then be seen that they are either nerveless or faintly two-nerved, have very narrow elongate leaf-cells, but the cells at the marginal base are ..."

3. Mind in Nature: Or, The Origin of Life, and the Mode of Development in Animals by Henry James Clark (1865)
"The gills, (gl,) which perform so important a part in this system, are two elongate, leaf-shaped bodies, placed symmetrically, ..."

4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"... but during the latter half of the month eggs may be found without difficulty. These are laid singly at the base of the elongate leaf-buds (rarely on ..."

5. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1884)
"... more numerous, and much more acute, longitudinally elongate leaf scars as constant characters, together with a central vascular cicatrix. ..."

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