Word Meanings - MICROPHYLLOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Small-leaved.

Related words: (words related to MICROPHYLLOUS)

• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• LEAVEN
  alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
• LEAVINGS
  1. Things left; remnants; relics. 2. Refuse; offal.
• LEAVINESS
  Leafiness.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• LEAVENOUS
  Containing leaven. Milton.
• LEAVER
  One who leaves, or withdraws.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• LEAVE
  To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• LEAVY
  Leafy. Chapman.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• FORLEAVE
  To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
• SLEAVED
  Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.