broadleaf
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
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Also called: kapuka. papauma. puka. an evergreen tree with large glossy leaves
Etymology
Origin of broadleaf
1750–60; back formation from broadleafed. See broad, leaf, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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The Forestry Commission said the firm had illegally felled mixed broadleaf woodland beside a petrol station in 2019.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Coconut palms now represent over half of the tree cover on these low islands, confining formerly widespread native broadleaf trees to small fractions of their natural range.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
This broadleaf variety is one of the darkest-colored mustard greens you'll see, with wide, subtly scalloped leaves in an attractive deep maroon.
From Salon • Jul. 5, 2023
It’s a broadleaf weed that grows in colonies or large groups and have seed leafs that are round and oval with sparse stinging hairs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023
For plantations of broadleaf species, one-year-old seedlings are best suited, while coniferous species should be two to three years old.
From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson
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