Meaning of leavelet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rare form of leaflet.
2. A part of a plant.
3. A small sheet of paper.

Examples

“Go to a garden—go, and see⟳, / Some rose-branch blushing on the tree; / And from that branch a rose-flower tear⟳, / Then place⟳ it on thy bosom bare; / And as its leavelets fade⟳ and pine, / So fades my sinking heart in thine.”

“This tree, which flowers, according to Jacquer, in July, is represented by him as one of great beauty, attaining a height of 40 feet, with a trunk of six feet, divided above that into numerous branches, finished with abundance of shining opposite pinnate (or winged) leaves, consisting of 6 or 7 pair of oblong entire obtuse sessile alternate leavelets, without a terminal one, foot stalk of five inches in length; […]”

“Time may my rich dark leavelets blanch, / They shall wither;—my cherishing sap shall fail⟳— / Though now I am proud, and each stalwart branch / Scarce bendeth a twig to the blustering gale.”

“The April showers have⟳ augmented into heavy rains, as if they had grown by what they fed on. They beat⟳ out, as with a mallet, the twigs into leavelets, & the buds into blossoms.”

“The nodding foliage, where ye lately found / A couch aye yielding to your gentleness— / Whiles it did leap⟳ with joy to hear⟳ your song, / And waved responsive to its symphonies— / These will return⟳ as plenteously as erst: / The morning wear⟳ again its old delight; / The eve all readily its golden death / Embrace; again be heard the babbling stream / As sweeps it on its way rejoicing; / Again among the various leavelets / Play⟳ wantonly will ye; and then forgot / Will be your song, when sorrowing ceases.”

“Dead leaves/caught among the leavelets”

“Live⟳ out, pale flower; yellow leavelets play⟳; / And you, ye trembling lingerers in the wood, / That wail of olden summer, to you I hie; / Together we will sigh⟳ the time away.”

“Thus, the gills may be exposed in tufts upon the back, as in Doris; or arranged on either side of the body, in a furrow between the mantle and the foot, transversely, in a single row, as in Phyllidia; or composed of divided lamellæ resembling divided leaves, as in Aplysia (sea-hare); or foliaceous, or pyramidal, arranged in rows on either side under the margin of mantle, as in Chiton; or composed of numerous leavelets, arranged parallel, like⟳ the teeth of a comb, as in Paludina (fresh-water snail).”

“Still I hear⟳ the river babble, / As it stops perchance to dabble / With the pebbles, or the rabble / Of conglomerating stones; / Hear⟳ it murmur sweetly singing, / With the water-plover winging / O’er its waves, these silver ringing, / Clear wild monotones— / Gurgling, babbling, singing, / Rolling on; / Flowers and leavelets bringing, / Rich in song: / Through the grey and marshy flats, / And the rye and barley plats, / Swiftly winging!”

“Give⟳ the Latin official name⟳ for three official barks, five official leaves, two official leavelets, four official rhizomes, six official roots, two official resins, three official gum-resins, two official gums, two official flowers, five official fruits, four official seeds, and three official woods.”

“The leaves of the vetches and vetchlings are pinate^([sic])—they bear⟳ a number⟳ of opposite ovate leavelets.”

“Of the Chara and Nitella, closely allied to the filamenteous algea,^([sic]) but distinguished therefrom in their resemblance to the higher plants by having stems, branches, leavelets, etc.”

“[…] order⟳ are closely allied to the filamentous algæ, but are distinguished therefrom in their resemblance to the higher plants by having stems, branches, leavelets, etc.”

“The so-called Ginkgo sandstone is however, of more doubtful age, “being characterized by numerous Psygmophyllum-like leavelets of unknown affinity and containing for the rest⟳ only little significant species of Tæniopteris and Baiera.””

“The blossom emerges from a long, etched gold stem from which spring⟳ three leavelets or spathes rendered in demantoid garnets mounted à jour in gold frames.”

“It started with a swelling in the flower bed; by the arbor vitae, the newly moistened mulch quickened, swelled, and extruded tiny leavelets, olive with a tinge of purple that balked at the unusual sun.”

“And the half-unclenched leavelets shiver, baring cold green in warm breezes, till from the river’s mirror ray-drawn rises mist, and in folding showers dry searchings cease.”

“According to the shape⟳ and the insertion of the pinnules, a special movement of the leavelets results.”

“Among the different types of Plantz are ‘stem-laces,’ ‘leavelets,’ and ‘twig rings.’”

“Our industries took leave⟳; the Cobden Club published leavelets.”

“And hope⟳ from my heart you won’t be called on to bear⟳ a quarter of what we did in the year following the collapse of France, etc. I can hardly think⟳ it possible, with your great distances, though you may come⟳ in for some sporadic raids. Or showers of leavelets, urging you to become⟳ Japanese! Oh what fools these orientals be!”

“We handle⟳ preparations of adverts, leavelets, newsletters, brochures, letterheads etc. from design⟳ and layouts, writing copy⟳, typesetting and supplying proofs.”

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