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fanleaf

noun

Etymology

From fan + leaf.

  1. inherited from *laubą✻ — “leaf”
  2. inherited from *laub✻
  3. inherited from lēaf
  4. inherited from leef
  5. compounded as fanleaf — “fan + leaf”

Definitions

  1. Any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.

  2. Any member of Fioria, a genus of the family Malvaceae.

  3. The Grapevine fanleaf virus.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A fan palm.

      • It is probably the Livistona rotundifolia of botanists, and is the most complete and beautiful fan-leaf I have ever seen, serving admirably for folding into water-buckets and impromptu baskets, as well as for thatching and other purposes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA