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floral leaf

noun

, Botany.
  1. one of the modified leaves forming the perianth of a flower, as a sepal or petal.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of floral leaf1

First recorded in 1745–55
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Example Sentences

Low, slender, and thin-leaved; floral leaves small.—Mountains of Va., etc.

Euphorbia.—Plants whose beauty resides in the bracts or floral leaves which surround the inconspicuous flowers.

The inflorescence, or flowering part of the stem, is terminal, loosely branching in that form which botanists term a panicle, with long, linear floral leaves or bractes at the origin of each division.

Convolvulus Sepium is very commonly subject to the production of flower-buds from the axils of the floral leaves.

The outer floral leaves of the lily are green, and in the day time the closed flowers are hardly distinguishable from the broad green leaves which float on the water.

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