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- Leafy - superl - Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.
- Leafy - superl - Consisting of leaves.
- Caulescent - a. - Having a leafy stem.
- Levesel - n. - A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.
- Acrocarpous - a. - Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.
- Stipuled - a. - Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.
- Perichaeth - n. - The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.
- Sporophore - n. - That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
- Alkekengi - n. - An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato.
- Oophore - n. - An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.