floral leaf

American  

noun

Botany.

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

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Etymology

Origin of floral leaf

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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

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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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