Definition of Leaflets

1. Noun. (plural of leaflet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leaflets

1. leaflet [v] - See also: leaflet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaflets

leafily
leafiness
leafinesses
leafing
leafless
leaflessness
leafleted
leafleteer
leafleteering
leafleteers
leafleter
leafleters
leafleting
leafletless
leaflets (current term)
leafletted
leafletting
leaflike
leaflitter
leaflove
leafloves
leafmeal
leafminer
leafminers
leafmold
leafmolds
leafmould
leafmoulds
leafnose bat

Literary usage of Leaflets

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Tall tree : Ivs. with 4-8 pinnae, each with 10-18 leaflets, obliquely oblong or oval, ... leaflets falcate, u-ifh the midrib close to the upper edge, acute. ..."

2. Studies in Heredity as Illustrated by the Trichomes of Species and Hybrids by William Austin Cannon (1909)
"Fully developed leaves, taken from analogous portions of the plants, were examined and the basal pair of leaflets were photographed (plates 9 and 10). ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Its naked flowers appear long before the leaves, which drop early in the autumn, but during the summer are very ornamental. Its leaflets are sessile and ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1890)
"But any of the leaves do not answer to this description. As will be seen by referring E«j figures 1-11, the two lower leaflets are often found to be more or ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The lower pair of leaflets in b is close to the stipules; ... 0, h and i show an imperfectly developed pair of leaflets in relation with the stipules. ..."

6. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Puberulent; wings white 3. L. Torreyi. exserted from the calyx; banner yellow. Stipules gland-like ; leaflets commonly unequally distributed on the ..."

7. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"leaflets 3 or 6 pairs; flowers 20-25 mm. long. leaflets oval or oblong. 3. L. bijugatus. ... Stipules large and broad, about half as long as the leaflets. ..."

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