from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having or bearing a leaf or leaves.
- adj. Having a specified number or kind of leaves. Often used in combination: three-leaved; wide-leaved.
_Leaf-blades_ are broadly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading, flat, or in short-leaved forms, stiff and pungent, 1 to 2 inches long (rarely also 5 inches long), glabrous above and below, ciliate at the margins towards the base, and with a very minutely serrate hyaline margin.
One of the most prominent of these is the Broad-leaved, which is considered not only earlier and more productive, but the best for manufacturing.
This is the Common Sage of the garden; and with the Green-leaved, which is but a sub-variety, the most esteemed for culinary purposes.
More recently, however, it has given place to the Narrow-leaved, which is much hardier, and equally efficacious.
Species include Aristolochia rotunda (Smearwort); Atriplex prostrata (Spear-leaved Orache); and Chenopodium album (White Goosefoot).
There is one other orchid; the exotic broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine.