Crossword clues for leatherleaf
The Collaborative International Dictionary
leatherleaf \leatherleaf\ n.
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A stiff leathery-leaved fern ( Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.
Syn: leathery polypody, coast polypody, Polypodium scouleri.
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A northern temperate bog shrub ( Chamaedaphne calyculata) with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers.
Syn: Chamaedaphne calyculata.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of leather leaf English)
WordNet
n. stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib [syn: leathery polypody, coast polypody, Polypodium scouleri]
north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers [syn: Chamaedaphne calyculata]
Usage examples of "leatherleaf".
Abell knew a thicket that gave a good view of the Whitecloak camp, a tangle of oak and sourgum and leatherleaf that covered three or four hides little more than a mile south and west of Watch Hill over an open stretch of ground.
Gaul led them south before turning into the Waterwood, a tangle of towering oak and pine and leatherleaf, bushy bay trees and cone-shaped redoil trees, tall round-topped ash and sweetberry and black willow, with thickets of vine-woven brush below.
Towering oaks and elms, leatherleafs and firs, were dwarfed beneath them.
Suddenly some trick of the moonlight resolved the shadows ahead of him, and he froze, touching the rough bole of a leatherleaf.
As he panned the looking glass slowly, hunting the tower, a slope covered in spaced leatherleaf and paperbark abruptly went up in flames, every tree become a torch at the same instant.
Most of the scattered trees down there still clawed the sky with stark winter branches, but enough evergreens-pine and leatherleaf, fir and mountain holly, even a few towering greenwoods-stood on the slopes and the valley floor to give cover for anyone who knew how to use it.
The rest was scrub brush, little as much as waist-high, dotted with leatherleaf and paperbark and the occasional Oak.
The rest was scrub brush, little as much as waist-high, dotted with leatherleaf and paperbark and the -occasional Oak.
A sparse thicket of scrub oak and leatherleaf covered the outer slopes.
Oak and pine, sourgum and leatherleaf and trees she did not recognize all looked even more bedraggled than they had in the heat and drought.
The Aiel were still turning to face the Waygate, spreading out across the slope with arrows nocked, among low bushes and stunted mountain trees, wind twisted pine and fir and leatherleaf Faile was just picking herself up from where she had tumbled from Swallow's saddle, the black mare nuzzling her.