释义 |
rough-leaved, a. [rough a.] Having rough leaves. Often in plant-names, as rough-leaved fig.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 80 Herbs considered according to the Superficies of their Leaves,..may be distinguished into such as are Rough leaved. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Ulmus, The common rough-leav'd Elm. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 421/2 Rough-leafed plants. 1834Audubon Ornith. Biogr. II. 448 The Rough-leaved Cordia.., one of the most beautiful of the West Indian trees. 1868Whittier Among the Hills Prel. 54 Nightshade and rough-leaved burdock. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Pl. 30 Ficus aspera,..‘Rough-leaved Fig’. |