ˈbroad-leaved, a.
Also -leafed.
a. Having broad leaves: often in Bot. a specific distinction (= L. latifolius). † b. Broad-brimmed (obs.).
| 1552 Huloet, Brode leafed, latifolium. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs viii. (Arb.) 62 This pleasaunte Brodeleaued Beech. 1769 Barrington in Phil. Trans. LIX. 34 The Wych (or broad-leaved) elm. a 1834 Coleridge Eolian Harp 4 With white flowered jasmin and the broad-leaved myrtle. 1861 Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 176 A broad-leafed low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver. 1882 Garden 18 Feb. 112/1 The broad-leaved Butcher's-broom. |
c. spec. in Forestry (see quot. 1957).
| 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging 39 Hardwood, a broad-leafed, or dicotyledonous, tree. 1927 Forestry I. 14 Scots Pine..in natural forests was almost always associated with a broad-leaved species, generally birch. 1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbook viii. 122 The current rate of planting of the broadleaved trees, or hardwoods is much lower than that of the conifers. 1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol. II. 33 Broadleaved tree, one belonging to the Dicotyledonous group of Angiosperms and producing timber known commercially as hardwood... The use of this term in certain African countries to distinguish trees having relatively large leaves as compared with Acacias is deprecated. |