leaves
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leaves
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leaves
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Leaves
1. the process of growing leaves, as plants, trees, etc.
2. the period during which leaves are put out. — frondescent, adj.
the process by which floral organs turn into foliage. Also called phyllomorphy.
a form of divination involving the examination of leaves.
abnormal development of leaf tissue; the growth of leaves in abnormal quantity or unusual locations.
the study of the transformations of leaves during different seasons.
phyllody.
1. the arrangement of the leaves on the stem of a plant.
2. the science or study of the arrangement and distribution of leaves. — phyllotactic, adj.
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Leaves
See Also: FLOWERS, NATURE, TREES
- Aspen and poplar leaves covered the road like yellow snow —Susan Engberg
- The dirty leaves were hanging down from the [rain-wet] trees like dead bats —Josephine Tey
- Dry leaves blew across the sidewalk like arched spiders —Joan Hess
- Dry leaves chatter like a children’s brigade —Diane Ackerman
- A few leaves had fallen and lay like neglected toys on the grass —Carolyn Slaughter
- The forest leaves moved like small rustling animals over the moss —Hayden Carruth
- The last leaves of some sultry September hung stiffly, like leaves pressed between the pages of an old catechism —Nelson Algren
- Leaves as light and agitated as swarms of little butterflies that hovered above the clover —Willa Cather
- Leaves as limp as soiled money —George Garrett
- Leaves delicately veined as a baby’s hands —W. P. Kinsella
- Leaves digest sun as men and women eat each other to love —Daniela Gioseffi
- Leaves drooped (over white frame houses) like hands —James Reiss
- Leaves fallen like wet rags —Bernard Malamud
- The leaves … fall off the branches by the hundreds, like paratroopers from their planes —David Ignatow
- Leaves fell like notes from a piano —Derek Walcott
- Leaves fell like rejected brown stars —John Rechy
- The leaves fly up like birds —Conrad Aiken
- Leaves hanging down like tongues —Jean Thompson
- Leaves hissing and steaming like kettles —Philip Levine
- Leaves … hung lustreless, like drying tea-dregs —Julia O’Faolain
- Leaves … large as a lady’s apron —Caroline Finkelstein
- Leaves … like a soggy blanket … covered gutter, sidewalk, lawn, backyard, bushes and alley —Bernard Malamud
- Leaves like green lace —George Garrett
- Leaves like ruffled wavelets —Sylvia Berkman
- Leaves like scarlet hands floated on the green slow water —Truman Capote
- The leaves of the red maples glowed like fruit —Jean Thompson
- The leaves paled and fell from the shedding trees like old wishes —George Garrett
- Leaves peep out so fresh and green, so pure and bright, like young lives pushing shyly out into the bustling world —Jerome K. Jerome
- Leaves rattled dryly together, like scales of metal —Aldous Huxley
- Leaves scatter and point to every part of the sky, like famished fingers waving —Richard Wilbur
- (A giant tree which bore) leaves shaped like fans —Anaĩs Nin
- The leaves sift down one by one like notes in music —May Sarton
- The leaves that a few days before had been green now dropped like heat-withered cellophane —Wallace Stegner
- The leaves turn and twist in the wind as if quarreling with one another —David Ignatow
- The leaves were motionless on the trees, as if they were resting in the heat —Willis Johnson
- Leaves, wrinkled or shiny like apples —Frank O’Hara
- Some of its [a plant’s] leaves had turned black and were curled up like charred Christmas ribbons —Margaret Millar
- Yellow leaves like lamps of gold —John Greenleaf Whittier
- The yellow leaves swam through the air as silently as fish —Jean Thompson
- The young leaves were still soft and slack … less like leaves than like petals, and drooping in the sweet forest-air like seaweeds in deep water —Isak Dinesen
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