feather-veined
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of feather-veined
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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In a day, the protective fuzz disappears, and the full-grown leaf is seen, thin, strongly feather-veined, uniformly green, saw-toothed.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
Seeds 1 or 2 in each carpel, anatropous; albumen fleshy; embryo minute.—Leaves alternate, not toothed, marked with minute transparent dots, feather-veined.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Heads in a compound terminal corymb, not at all racemose 37–40 Heads small, mostly clustered in the axils of feather-veined leaves 3–7 Heads mostly large, in a terminal thyrse; leaves feather-veined.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
When the great veins all branch from the midrib, the leaf is feather-veined or pinnate-veined.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Leaves deciduous, 2 to 5 in. long, feather-veined, petioled, ovate, rarely cordate at base, sharply serrate, with stellate hairs.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
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