Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.
A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.
Miulan ang mga bulantis sa syudad, The leaflets rained on the city.
A; a] cut the leaflets from the fronds of the nipa palms for shingles.
A1; a] remove the leaflets from a palm frond with a bladed tool.
Sa dì pa makagilis ang lubi, piligru sa mga mananap, Before the leafletsof the coconut palm frond break apart, the plants are in danger of being eaten by harmful insects.
Gilaslas níya ang mga lukay, He cut off theleaflets from the palm frond.
As the little baby leaflets open, they are shiny and crinkly, and altogether attractive.
The leaves of the poison-sumach are compound, with from seven to thirteen leaflets growing from one stem, as the leaves of the walnut-tree grow; the stalks are often of a purplish color.
The nuts are different in shape and in flavor, and the leaflets are hairy instead of smooth.
The leaflets are oval in shape and are pointed at the tip.
It is a trailing vine with compound leaves of from four to seven leaflets which are double-toothed.
All have compound leaves and the leaflets are larger and fewer to the stem than the walnut, usually numbering from five to eleven.
A closer view shows that the leaflets of the Biltmore ash stand in a plane above the rachis higher than those of the white ash.
Leaflets on some trees are quite thin while those of other trees are thick and leathery, and no doubt would be classed by Sargent as variety =subcoriacea=[68].
Another series of leaflets to be inserted in letters is published by the Bureau des Deutschen Handelstages, Berlin (Bureau of the German Commercial Conference of Berlin).
In Germany also are published leaflets bearing no indication of their origin.
A very interesting method of propaganda is that which consists in attaching to business letters leaflets printed on very thin paper, giving "authentic" news in the language of the recipient.
It publishes propagandist leaflets at irregular intervals and of various dimensions, which are intended to furnish "the verifiable truth as to the origin, course, and results of the war.
She did find a way to finance the printing of leaflets so urgently needed for distribution in Kansas.
Steadily adding names to her petitions and leaving behind the leaflets which Elizabeth Stanton had written, she aroused a glimmer of interest in a new valuation of women.
In the simplest possible way relief has been obtained by representing the leaflets of the nearer fronds by white spaces, whilst those further away are represented by white outlines.
Nevertheless, in the midst of these waverings, which lead us to mistake the calicinal leaflets sometimes for bracts, sometimes for petals, we recognise perfectly the foliaceous type.
We hesitate, therefore, whether we must give the name of calyx or bracts to the three under leaflets which are visible beneath the petaloid envelope of the Anemone nemorosa, or wood anemone.
The truth is, that the calicinal divisions, which we call lobes, lacinias, and the like, are but the tops of leaflets united at their base.
For example: in the Berberis vulgaris, the young calicinal leaflets have less resemblance to the bracts than to the petals of the corolla, and hence they have received the name of petaloid sepals.
The botanists of antiquity called the coloured leaflets of the corolla, petals.
Why not prefer the term "corollary leaves or leaflets (foliola)" to that of petals?
Some of these leaflets and booklets have fallen into our hands, and in them we have found confirmation of what we say above.
He had always supposed that what the leaflets called "personal evangelism" had to be done in a spirit of solemnity.
It was only a sort of assistant secretary's job, but very soon I began to catch on, and I've seen a lot of the letters and leaflets that come from the Board in Chicago.
These leaflets embrace a very large number of subjects, several of which belong to the farm and the orchard and are beyond the scope of the present volume.
The mother butterflies deposit the eggs singly on leaves or stems, generally on the small leaflets of the compound leaf.
The eggs are laid, one in a place, on the leaflets of various species of wild senna (Cassia) and soon hatch into cylindrical caterpillars that devour the tender leaflets.
Less than a week later each egg hatches into a cylindrical greenish caterpillar that feeds upon the leaflets in a characteristic fashion.
As is well known the leaflets of Cassia, like other leguminous plants, close at night.
It lays its eggs upon the upper surface of the leaflets of locusts and other plants of the legume family.
In leaf-climbers, such as pea or vetch, the end of the rachis and one or more pairs of leaflets are changed into tendrils.
Spontaneous movements are exemplified in the telegraph-plant (Desmodium gyrans), native of tropical Asia, where the small lateral leaflets move up and down every few minutes.
A common form is illustrated by the trefoil or clovers, which have three leaflets springing from a common point (digitately trifoliate); pinnate leaves are also frequent as in laburnum and Robinia.
The British developed a six-inch gun that carried ten or twelve miles and scattered several thousand leaflets from each shell.
The paper used in the leaflets was chemically treated so that they would not spoil if they lay out in the rain.
The leaflets are egg-shaped, and the whole plant is covered with loose, soft hair.
The flowers open in summer, and the leaves are bright-green, long-stalked, with three leaflets to each.
It is easily recognised from the leaflets being in two or three pairs, with an odd one at top, in colour of a glossy dark-green, and the leaves of a leathery nature.
Whole series of leaflets will teach the enemy soldier how to say, "I surrender," in the language of the propagandist.
Figure 46 shows the consummation of the troop propaganda program; these Germans are surrendering and they carry the Allied leaflets with them.
The leaflets had little key numbers in the corners, showing to which series they belonged, and could thus be arranged in series.
Leaflets can be made up in advance to govern typical situations which may arise.
Whenever surrender requires nothing more than passivity, morale leaflets are even more promising; in such cases all that is asked of the enemy is that he sit tight, fight inefficiently, and put up his hands when he is told to do so.
Adjustment of the controls could regulate the speed at which leaflets were discharged, so that the pilot could give enemy units or installations bursts of leaflets in precisely the same way that he would strafe them with machine guns.
As the areas behind them became more consolidated, displays and films took their place beside news and leaflets as chores that had to be performed.
She also had ten thousand leaflets to distribute for that Education League of hers; they lay in bales in another corner, behind the sofa.
Yet Angela, left unpoliced, did not immediately fly toward the bedroom region, or run and hide with the leaflets behind the sofa.
The enemy, having discovered the sufferings of the soldiers at Morristown, circulated leaflets inviting them to share the pleasures of New York.
Paine's pamphlet and two furtherleaflets of his were printed.
These leaflets on the fruit-stem would have to be removed in marketing the crop--another serious defect.
Frequently the blossoms have small leaflets intermingled with the petals, while often a smaller flower appears to rise out of the center of another.
Its leaves are doubly pinnate, and the leaflets of twelve pair without a terminal one; they are oblong, obtuse, smooth, very entire.
Being less fragile than the leaflets of the true senna, they are more often found entire, and are very easily distinguishable from the varieties which constitute true Alexandrian senna.
I am a subscriber to The Messenger, and my son was in the Apostleship of Prayer and used to get the leaflets in his young days at the school he was going to, taught by the Christian Brothers.
When England was fighting the Boers he distributed anti-recruiting leaflets in the streets of Dublin.
The petiole of the leaf is sensitive to contact; even a small loop of thread suspended for two days caused it to bend upwards; but the sub- petioles of the two lateral leaflets are not sensitive.
The petioles of the young terminal leaflets are acted on by loops of thread weighing 0.
Its leaves are nearly similar in structure and in function, excepting that the sub-petioles of the lateral and terminal leaflets are sensitive.
The petioles of a leaf, so young that none of the leaflets were expanded, had partially seized a twig.
Each bears three pairs of lateral leaflets and a terminal one, all supported on rather long sub- petioles.
When the lower part of the petiole bearing the leaflets was securely fastened, the tendril itself described similar but much smaller figures.
But the leaflets are more divided, and each segment whilst young terminates in a hardish point, which is much curved downwards and inwards; so that the whole leaf readily catches hold of any neighbouring object.
All the reducedleaflets have branching nerves, and terminate in little spines, like those of the fully developed leaflets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaflets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
