The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broad-leaved \Broad"-leaved`\, Broad-leafed \Broad"-leafed`\, a.
Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves, in contrast to
needlelike or scalelike leaves.
--Keats. [Narrower terms:
deciduous (vs. evergreen)]
WordNet
adj. having relatively broad rather than needle-like or scale-like leaves [syn: broadleaf, broad-leaved]
Usage examples of "broad-leafed".
English clothes were discarded for a more Chilian garb, including a poncho and a broad-leafed sombrero.
Broad-leafed varieties littered the dome floor around them, surrounded and intergrown with numerous trailers such as aurea and traveling sailor.
Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber.
The base of the house was landscaped with a variety of broad-leafed cactusSpanish bayonet, I thought, so named for good reasonand I pushed through them with care.
Initially covered with tall-grass prairies (largely greater bluestem, panicum and canegrass) it has increasingly been colonized by broad-leafed trees ranging from tulip poplar and magnolia in the south to rock maple and birch on the northern fringe.
It wasn't long after dawn but this August had been the hottest in years in North Carolina and Lydia was already sweating through her nurse's whites by the time she started toward the clearing on the riverbank, surrounded by willows and tupelo gum and broad-leafed bay trees.
Maritime winds, moderated by unfreezing waters of the sea, created a narrow temperate belt at the protected southern tip and provided enough moisture and warmth for the dense hardwood forest of broad-leafed deciduous trees common to cold temperate regions.
Dark water holding dense thickets of reeds and broad-leafed plants with pink and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers lurked to the sides.