broadleaf

See also: broad-leaf

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broad + leaf

Adjective

broadleaf (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to trees with broad, flat leaves, or woodlands made up of such trees.
    • 2015, Victoria Schlesinger, ‘Backyard evolution’, Aeon, 21 May:
      Urban has spent close to a decade slogging around in the ponds of Connecticut’s broadleaf forests examining the intricacies of salamander populations.
  2. Used in the name of a plant or tree: having especially broad leaves.

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Noun

broadleaf (plural broadleafs or broadleaves)

  1. A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.
  2. A type of tobacco having broad leaves, used for making cigars.

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