The simplest cases are such as are figured in the adjacent cuts, wherein, in place of a single leaf, two are produced in the elm.
On neither occasion was a single leaf, whether pinned open or free, injured; and this surprised us much, considering its native tropical African home.
Others again had not a single leaf in the least injured, and these had to be re-exposed either for a longer time or to a lower temperature.
The large seeds of this plant in germinating first protrude a single leaf, which breaks through the ground with the petiole bowed into an arch and with the leaflets involuted.
So by noting the position of the buds, all the parts included in a single leaf can be determined.
This whole spray usually falls off in the autumn as though a single leaf.
A single leafis often four feet long, and nearly a yard wide.
All of the rest of the needle-leaved evergreens have a single leaf at a place upon the twig.
It is in no spirit of wantonness I break the decree which forbids the asking a single leaf of the precious plant of rue.
If the king's son had come in haste for the burning of a single leaf, I leave it to be imagined with what speed he came for the burning of the whole plant.
For my decree said that whoso desired a single leaf should be put to death, but in that thou hast asked the whole plant thou hast shown a courage worthy of reward.
In the whole country there is no one has a plant of it but the king, and he is so choice over it that he has decreed that if anyone venture to ask him only for a single leaf he shall instantly be put to death.
We have already answered the question, What constitutes a single leaf?
I did not tell them that the way to tell a single leaf was to look for buds in the axils, but incautiously drew their attention to the stipules at the base of a rose leaf as a means of knowing that the whole was one.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single leaf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
