(a) Having crevices, chinks, or cracks; fissured. †(b) Deeply furrowed or channelled. †(c) Indented (of leaves, etc.).

Formed as a blade, lanceolate.

Of leaves: Having a much waved edge or surface. transferred. Of plants: Having curled leaves.

That has been purled (in various senses); esp. ornamented or edged with purls, embroidered with purl thread, or knitted in purl stitch.

serrated.

Divided into or bearing finger-like lobes or sections; digitate. Botany. Of a plant or its leaf, flower, fruit, root, etc. (Cf. digitate, adj. 2a, pa…

Of a leaf: having a sharp edge like a knife.

Of a plant: having jagged or deeply serrated leaves or fronds.

Botany. Of a leaf: indented at the apex; obcordate. Obsolete. rare.

Having a cusp or sharp point: spec. (a) Botany (of leaves) ending in a rigid point or spine; (b) applied to the canine teeth, each of which ends…

(See quot. 1719.)

Having a cusp or cusps; = cuspidate, adj.

Somewhat or almost rotund; roundish.

Originally Botany. Needle-shaped and rigid, as the leaves of a pine tree; sharply pointed; acicular.

Botany. Of a leaf: triangular with the basal corners laterally projecting.

Botany. Rolled inwards at the edges.

Botany. Of a leaf: having unequal parts on either side of the midrib; (also) †twisted, curved (obsolete rare).

= acerose, adj. 2.

(of a leaf) flattened or strap-shaped at the base with a spear-shaped head.

Lacking a distinct or separate margin or border.

Imperfectly or nearly marginated (marginated, adj. 1); esp. (in later use) (Mycology) designating a bulb at the base of the stipe of certain…

Chiefly Botany. Esp. of a leaf: folded back upon itself so that the upper and lower parts are in contact; reclinate. Also: folded lengthways; having…

denticulate.

Of a part of an insect or plant: having a narrow segment; narrow.

Of a leaf: having a spade-like form, owing to the edge being decurrent on the petiole.

Of (leaf-) margins: Crenate or scalloped, with the scallops themselves crenate.

Of leaves: Prolonged at the base below the point of origin.

Botany. = replicate, adj. 1a. rare.

= frontated, adj.

Of a leaf: triangular with the basal corners laterally projecting; = hastate, adj. 1.