Word Finder - leaflets

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One of the components of a compound leaf.

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A small plant leaf.

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The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.

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• leafling

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A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.

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A leaflet had been left under the car's windshield wiper.

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• flier
• flyer
• folder
• handbill
• pamphlet

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A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.

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To distribute leaflets to.

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A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.

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To distribute leaflets.

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During the summer, Peter earned some extra cash by leafleting for a local pizza delivery restaurant.

Advice leaflets are available which you can download in pdf format.

Vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation to the Diocesan priesthood.

Are there any service guides or leaflets available regarding the new wheelie bins service?

It has wrinkled, dark green leaves of three to five leaflets, the mid-ribs having a few scattered bristles.

Leaflets are ovate and have serreate margins.

From black roots spring healthy tufts of leaves with two or three pairs of shining leaflets; the flower-buds appearing soon afterwards, almost covering the plant with beautiful purple and blue blooms in April.

Its leaves are palmately compound with 3-5 leaflets, the middle one being the largest.

It has slender-stalked leaves, broad leaflets, and in early summer dense erect clusters of pinkish fragrant flowers; a valuable hardy tree.

The foliage is very handsome, the great leaves, often 2 feet in length, being divided into many deep green leaflets.

Eastern Cork Tree (Phellodendron) - Hardy summer-leafing trees about 50 feet high, from China and Japan, spreading in habit, and with large leaves cut into many leaflets.

The leaves are made up of about eleven ovate leaflets, the larger ones exceeding 5 inches in length and 2 1/2 inches in width.

Ground Nut (Apios Tuberosa) - A graceful tuberous-rooted perennial of twining habit, with leaves cut into five lance-shaped leaflets, and fragrant brown flowers in dense clusters from July to September.

The foliage is thick, with three or five leaflets of a deep shining green.

Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis Comosa) - A small prostrate British plant, with pretty little deep-yellow flowers, in coronilla-like crowns, the upper petal faintly veined with brown, the pinnate leaves small and leaflets smooth.

Lardizabala - L. biternata is a handsome evergreen climber from Chili, hardy enough for walls in the south and coast districts; the foliage a deep green, the leaflets thick.

It is a tall herbaceous climber, 10 to 20 feet high, with pinnate leaves, terminating in branched tendrils, the leaflets being covered on the under side with a fine silky down.

Sophora Secundiflora - A low dense tree or leafy shrub, with ornamental foliage composed of neat rounded leaflets with a glossy surface, and strongly fragrant violet-blue flowers borne in a dense spike.

It has silvery leaves divided into a number of small leaflets, and clusters of white flowers like the Hawthorn, followed by red-brown berries.

In this the leaflets are arranged in pairs.

The grey-green leaves have seven leaflets, and are scented when young.

The leaflets are small and numerous, not unlike those of the Scotch Rose, and in one variety the young stems are quite red.

Its leaves are very deeply-cut, frequently into several leaflets, which are a gain deeply lobed.

Var. laciniata is very distinct, the leaflets longer and of much greater breadth than in R. glabra itself, but they are cut up into narrow pinnate segments.

America. T. rhombifolia is dwarfer and with rounded leaflets, growing well even in the driest places.

America. In appearance they are unlike other shrubs, often with handsome leaves cut into leaflets, and small white or greenish flowers followed in some kinds by ornamental fruits.

The deep green leaves are cut into five leaflets, threaded by silvery ribs and veins, the effect being particularly rich in autumn when they turn a deep crimson-purple.

They are cut into many widely-spread leaflets, measure 18 by 12 inches at the base, their upper, surface a dark green changing to grey-green on the under side.

This encompasses a large assortment of posters, leaflets, meetings and even "newspapers" that you can use to promote your new business.

Ebstein's anomaly is a rare congenital syndrome that causes malformed tricuspid valve leaflets, which allow blood to leak between the right ventricle and the right atrium.

Subsidiary clubs affiliated to the central administration were formed throughout the length and breadth of the coilntry, and millions of leaflets and pamphlets were distributed broadcast to explain the importance of the movement.

When the pinnate leaf of a Mimosa pudica, the so-called sensitive plant, is pinched or struck, the leaf droops rapidly and the leaflets become approximated together, so that their upper surfaces are in contact.

The extent to which the disturbance spreads depends on the violence of the stimulationit may be confined to a few leaflets or it may extend to all the leaves of the plant.

The small pulvini of the leaflets, by similar changes of the distribution of turgidity, take up their respective position.s after receiving the stimulus.

Newspapers, as the term is understood in the West, did not exist in old Japan, though block-printed leaflets were occasionally issued to describe some specially stirring event.

In former years the "Vegetarian Society" was the most active in producing literature, but since about 1901 the Order of the Golden Age has come to the front with new and up-to-date books, booklets and leaflets, and the Ideal Publishing Union has reprinted much of the earlier literature.

The plant is an annual herb with flexuose branches, and alternately arranged pinnately compound leaves, with small, oval, serrated leaflets and small eared stipules.

Abietic acid can be extracted from colophony by means of hot alcohol; it crystallizes in leaflets, and on oxidation yields trimellitic, isophthalic and terebic acid.

In this way two marked forms of leaf are produced - (I) Simple form, in which the segmentation, however deeply it extends into the lamina, does not separate portions of the lamina which become articulated with the midrib or petiole; and (2) Compound form, where portions of the lamina are separated as detached leaflets, which become articulated with the midrib or petiole.

Compound leaves are those in which the divisions extend to the midrib or petiole, and the sepa rated portions become each arti culated with it, and receive the name of leaflets.

There are nine pairs of shortly-stalked leaflets (foliola, pinnae), and an odd one at the extremity.

Some petioles are long, slender and sensitive to contact, and function as tendrils by means of which the plant climbs; as in the l,' nasturtiums (Tropaeolum), clematis and c in others; and in compound leaves the midrib and some of the leaflets may similarly be transformed into tendrils, as in the pea and vetch.

At the base of the leaflets of a compound leaf, small stipules (stipels) are occasionally produced.

In Utricularia bladder-like sacs are formed by a modification of leaflets on the submerged leaves.

Each leaf has a slender stem-like axis, which twines round a support and bears leaflets at intervals; it goes on growing indefinitely.

In some instances, however, more especially in the Australian species, the leaflets are suppressed and the leaf-stalks become vertically flattened, and serve the purpose of leaves.

A director of agriculture was appointed in 1896, and leaflets are issued pointing out improvements within the means of the villager, and how to deal with plant diseases and insect pests.

Of Phanerogams, only the Dryas octopetala covers small areas of the debris, interspersed with isolated Cochlearia, &c., and, where a layer of thinner clay has been deposited in sheltered places, the surface is covered with saxifrages, &c.; and a carpet of mosses allows the arctic willow (Salix polaris) to develop. Where a thin sheet of humus, fertilized by lemmings, has accumulated, a few flowering plants appear, but even so their brilliant flowers spring direct from the soil, concealing the developed leaflets, while their horizontally spread roots grow out of proportion; only the Salix lanata rises to 7 or 8 in., sending out roots I in.

The leaves are composed of seven radiating leaflets (long-wedge-shaped); when young they are downy and drooping.

The tree bears large compound leaves with two to four pairs of leathery lanceolate pointed leaflets about 3 in.

A series of bibliographical leaflets for the use of teachers is issued by the Historical Association.