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• leafless — [[t]li͟ːfləs[/t]] ADJ If a tree or plant is leafless, it has no leaves. A beautiful fig tree that had stood in their yard was leafless and barren. Syn: bare …   English dictionary

• leafless — leaf ► NOUN (pl. leaves) 1) a flattened, typically green, structure of a plant, that is attached to a stem and is the chief site of photosynthesis and transpiration. 2) the state of having leaves: the trees were in leaf. 3) a single thickness of… …   English terms dictionary

• snow plant — noun a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground • Syn: ↑Sarcodes sanguinea • Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower • Member Holonyms: ↑Sarcodes, ↑genus …   Useful english dictionary

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• Rhynie plant — ▪ fossil plant       rootless, leafless, spore bearing plant preserved in the Rhynie Chert, a mineral deposit that has been dated to the early part of the Devonian Period (416 to 359 million years ago), near present day Aberdeen, Scot. Rhynia,… …   Universalium

• umbrella plant — noun 1. African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves • Syn: ↑umbrella sedge, ↑Cyperus alternifolius • Hypernyms: ↑sedge • Member Holonyms: ↑Cyperus, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• coral plant — noun 1. obsolete : a coral like a plant 2. a. : a much cultivated East Indian plant (Jatropha multifida) with showy scarlet flowers and deeply incised leaves b. : any plant of the genus Erythrina (especially E. corallodendron) …   Useful english dictionary

• snow plant — snow′ plant n. pln a leafless parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the wintergreen family, common in the Sierra Nevada in California and having a red flower spike and a thickly scaled stem • Etymology: 1840–50 …   From formal English to slang