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English
Etymology
From broad + leaf.
Adjective
broadleaf (not comparable)
- Pertaining to trees with relatively broad, flat leaves as opposed to needles, or woodlands made up of such trees.
2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon:Urban has spent close to a decade slogging around in the ponds of Connecticut’s broadleaf forests examining the intricacies of salamander populations.
- Used in the name of a plant or tree: having especially broad leaves.
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pertaining to trees with leaves
having especially broad leaves
Noun
broadleaf (countable and uncountable, plural broadleafs or broadleaves)
- A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.
- A type of tobacco having broad leaves, used for making cigars.
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