broad-leaved
- adjective
- /brɔd-liːvd/
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- Many broad-leaved plants thrive in moist environments, making them ideal for a lush garden.
- broad-leaved evergreen
- broad-leaved forests
- broad-leaved tree
Examples
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Most or all nontropical broad-leaved evergreen forests are poorly represented in compilations of ecological data.
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Within the first year of our study, we identified well over one hundred species of broad-leaved plants that the animal eats; about twenty were particularly favored.
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And, as Box (1995) notes, evergreen broad-leaved forests are not recognized in the analysis of satellite data.
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The river swamp is dominated by bald cypress, with sweet bay magnolia and green ash as the prominent broad-leaved trees.
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Although pine forests have only half the biomass of the surrounding broad-leaved forests, they maintain similar NPP (Singh et al. 1994).
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Common trees are red spruce and balsam fir, interspersed with such broad-leaved species as American beech and sugar maple.
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Himalayan forests are dominated by broad-leaved evergreen taxa, as is much of the rest of mesic Asia (Song 1995, Wolfe 1979).
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A third pattern of leaf development occurs in northwestern North America, where broad-leaved trees are of minor importance (Waring and Franklin 1979) as leaves expand during the moist season, but leaf maturity coincides with the dry season.
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The forest is filled with broad-leaved trees that provide shade during the hot summer months.
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In the spring, the broad-leaved foliage of the trees bursts forth, adding vibrant greens to the landscape.
Synonyms
A plant or tree that has wide, flat leaves
A plant or tree with wide flat leaves rather than needles
A plant with large leaves, like many tropical houseplants
A plant with leaves larger than those of other plants of the same kind
Antonyms
How Broad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Broad-leaved is made of two parts: broad meaning 'wide' and -leaved from the word 'leaf'. So broad-leaved literally means 'having wide leaves' and is used for plants with flat, wide leaves rather than thin, needle-like ones.
