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)]
Wiktionary
a. Having relatively broad leaf
WordNet
adj. having relatively broad rather than needle-like or scale-like leaves [syn: broadleaf, broad-leafed]
Usage examples of "broad-leaved".
Included in the several hundred pounds of roughage consumed every day, which they passed through their bodies within twelve hours, was a small, though necessary, addition of succulent, broad-leaved, more nutritious plants, or occasionally a few choice leaves of willow, birch, or alder trees, higher in food value than the coarse tallgrass and sedge, but toxic to mammoths in large quantities.
I live I shall remember my first step on land--the whiff of drying stockfish from the shore, the black basalt rocks, the clumps of broad-leaved arch-angelica, and the oyster-catchers piping along the shingle.
The Gorn shuttle sailed out over broad-leaved treetops that sparkled with sunlit pools of rain, heading for the perimeter walls of Tesseract Fortress.
This person was attired in black, with a broad-leaved hat pulled down over his brows.
Then the title got to include other broad-leaved herbs, all of the Sorrel kind, and used in pottage, or in medicine.