The specific name, tanacetifolia, meaning with tansy-like leaves, is more applicable to the var.
It is an evergreen shrub, with small clustered, needle-like leaves.
The branches are thatched with the shaggy husks of dead leaves and from their tips they thrust out a great bunch of dagger-like leaves and a big, ponderous cluster of pallid, greenish flowers or heavy, yellowish fruits.
Shrub with minute, scale-like leaves; and lateral spikes of small, regular flowers.
This grows quickly, and the fern-like leaves, covering almost the twining stems, possess much beauty; the flowers are white.
A very graceful evergreen tree with acacia-like leaves a foot in length, bearing panicles of drooping violet-blue flowers.
Just below the flowers are several small bract-like leaves, also armed with sharp prickles.
The willow-like leaves, lustrous and evergreen, last often through the sixth season.
Low and smooth perennials, with simple erect stems, bearing a few alternate usually minute and scale-like leaves below, and a whorl of thin veiny leaves at the summit.
Thaspium-like leaves, no involucre, involucels of small bractlets, yellow flowers, and the central fruit of each umbellet sessile.
Stem scape-like, with a few bract-like leaves or naked.
The ailanthus tree, whose long, fern-like leaves make it look like a tree from the Tropics, is sowing its seeds all winter, with the help of the wind.
If we walk through the village or the city in which we live, and stop under each evergreen tree we come to, we shall find nearly all alike in these two points: they have needle-like leaves, and they have cones.
The evergreens with needle-like leaves, and cones on and under them, belong to four evergreen tree families, whose names every one would like to know.
This Palm has plume-like leaves, and grows from sixty to eighty feet high, living to a great age, and providing yearly a large crop of fruit.
The Linaria vulgaris, from its narrow Flax-like leaves, is known as Toad Flax, from a curious mistake of the old herbalists who confounded the Latin words bubo and bufo.
The Centinode, or Knot Grass (Polygonum aviculare) derives its name from the knottiness of its stem and its Grass-like leaves.
There is the Brigalow Scrub in Australia, which has a curious silver-grey shimmering appearance on account of the blue-grey sickle-like leaves of the Brigalow Acacia.
Moreover, the Osmanthus, with its holly-like leaves, the Evergreen Oak, and some Junipers are found to show exactly the same curious difference.
The colour of these tube-like or vase-like leaves varies.
In the water and in pools, or perhaps in the mud, were curious waterferns with coiled-up crozier-like leaves.
No air blows from the rippling water, set with acres of lotus-beds, the fringed chalices of rose and azure swaying on their plate-like leaves of palest green.
A fine, evergreen wall shrub with holly-like leaves, and long, pendulous scarlet and orange flowers in June.
This is very suitable for planting on the borders of still waters, where its long frond-like leaves, which turn to a golden yellow in autumn, produce a fine effect.
Neat-growing, dwarf evergreen shrubs having Laurel-like leaves, and producing a profusion of scarlet berries in winter.
Illustration: The beautiful tall reeds of the sugar cane, their pennon-like leaves gleaming in the sunshine.
Spikes not conspicuously exceeded by the bract-like leaves --10.
This is a charming South African plant with fibrous-coated corms, and long narrow sword-like leaves.
A graceful Mexican plant of the Narcissus family, with roundish fibrous-coated corms over an inch in diameter, and narrow sword-like leaves 12 to 18 inches long.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like leaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
