megaphyllousadj.
/ˌmɛɡəˈfɪləs/, U.S. /ˌmɛɡəˈfɪləs/ Botany.
Having large leaves; having megaphylls.
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broad-leaved1552
long-leaved1562
narrow-leaved1578
round-leaved1597
small-leaved1597
long-leafed1629
rosemary-leaved1633
rue-leaved1633
teretifolious1657
cut-leaved1731
longleaf1733
channel-leaved1758
halberd-shaped1770
alder-leaved1772
oak-leaved1776
holly-leaved1777
ivy-leaved1789
halberd-headed1795
daisy-leaved1796
narrow-leaf1804
oblique-leaved1807
sword-leaved1807
wing-leaved1822
flaggy1842
curly1845
macrophyllous1857
parvifolious1857
shield-leaved1860
curled1861
symphyllous1877
beak-leaved188.
stenophyllous1880
thread-leaved1884
megaphyllous1901
little leaf1908
ivy-leaf1909
1901 Bot. Gaz. 32 416 O[smunda] regalis is phyllosiphonic, as are all primitively megaphyllous plants.
1909 D. H. Scott in A. C. Seward Darwin & Mod. Sci. 203 A large proportion of the higher plants are microphyllous in comparison with the highly megaphyllous fern-like forms from which they appear to have been derived.
1954 Phytomorphology 4 264/1 Among the species of many widely different genera of trees there is a transition from megaphyllous pachycaul to microphyllous leptocaul.
1988 Bot. Gaz. 149 64 A quantitative study..was undertaken..with special interest in comparing results from..microphyllous species with results from megaphyllous angiosperms.
1998 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 142 139 The Gigantopteridaceae, an enigmatic group of Permian plants with large, megaphyllous foliage, foreshadowed physiognomic attributes occurring in later angiosperms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1901