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broad-leaved

denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
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The local broad-leafed trees are taking back their place," he said.
A lone bugler played taps under the shade of a moss-covered, broad-leafed maple.
Botanists once discovered a colony of Schiedea membranacea, a short, broad-leafed Hawaiian member of the carnation family, at the junction of the Mahanaloa and Kuia valleys.
GP- 11, PI 633724) broad-leafed birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) hybrid germplasm was released by the USDA-ARS in cooperation with the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in March 2003.
Select a weed killer that will eradicate broad-leafed weeds and mosses without damaging the grass.
In "All Good Things Around Us," Pamela Michael calls wild leeks allium ursinum, or the broad-leafed garlic, and she says they are perennial throughout Britain, Europe, Scandinavia and the United States.
In four papers published over the past 6 years, her team showed that the drug can severely stunt the growth of barley, corn, the water fern Azolla filiculoides, and the three common garden weeds redroot pigweed, broad-leafed plantain, and sheep sorrel.
The broad-leafed deciduous forests from the air look much like tropical rainforests, and the vast acres of burning, cut-over lands made me think of Brazil.
In the reserve there is a large lake, reed beds, broad-leafed woodland, wet areas in the woods and some areas of conifer trees.
The 62-year-old said: "Basically they are going to destroy a beautiful grassed area that has numerous broad-leafed mature trees and hundreds of spring bulbs on it.
A There are complete feeds which fertilise the lawn and kill broad-leafed weeds and moss.
GP-8, PI 631492) broad-leafed birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) germplasm was released by the USDA-ARS in cooperation with the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in August 2002.
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