narrow-leaved, a.
Also 7 leafed.
That has narrow leaves. Chiefly in plant-names (see quots.).
| 1629 Parkinson Parad. 182 It may fitly bee called a narrow leafed Flowerdeluce. 1658 Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus Wks. (Bohn) II. 548 Why coniferous trees are tenuifolious or narrow-leafed? 1754 Catesby Nat. Hist. Car. I. 69 The narrow-leaved Candle-berry Myrtle. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Lavender, There are two sorts, distinguished by the names of lavender spike, and common narrow leaved lavender. 1768 Pennant Brit. Zool. (1776) I. 13 The narrow⁓leaved Plantane is greedily eat by horses and cows. 1833 in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. i. 29 Narrow-leaved Ever⁓lasting Pea. 1859 Miss Pratt Brit. Grasses 22 Narrow⁓leaved Cotton-grass. 1879 Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 46 Caterpillars which live on or among narrow-leaved plants. |