Herbs or undershrubs with entire, opposite leaves; and conspicuous, regular flowers.
Finally, the square stem, opposite leaves, and character of the fruit, show us that the plant must belong to the order Labiatae.
Herbs, mostly aromatic, with square stems, opposite leaves, and whorls or cymes of irregular flowers.
Our two species are perennials, sending up simple stems in early spring from a small deep tuber, bearing a pair of opposite leaves, and a loose raceme of pretty flowers.
Herbs, with entire alternate or opposite leaves; stipules gland-like or none.
Usually prostrate maritime herbs, with succulent stems, opposite leaves, and axillary or terminal flowers.
Foliage leaves all or principally basal; flower-stalk either completely leafless, or bearing a single pair of opposite leaves only.
When the pieces are four, two are outer and two are inner; which answers to the arrangement of opposite leaves.
Opposite leaves, that is, whorls of two leaves only, are far commoner than whorls of three or four or more members.
So the plan of opposite leaves, which is very common, is merely that of whorled leaves, with the fewest leaves to the whorl, namely, two.
Opposite leaves of Euonymus, or Spindle-tree, showing the successive pairs crossing each other at right angles.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposite leaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
