Bay leaf
() See under 3d Bay. |
Five-leaf
(n.) Cinquefoil |
Heap
(n.) A crowd |
Heap
(n.) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. |
Heap
(n.) A pile or mass |
Heap
(v. t.) To collect in great quantity |
Heap
(v. t.) To throw or lay in a heap |
Heap
(v. t.) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring |
Leaves
(pl. ) of Leaf |
Leaf
(n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light |
Leaf
(n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril. |
Leaf
(n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end |
Leaf
(v. i.) To shoot out leaves |
Leaf-footed
(a.) Having leaflike expansions on the legs |
Leaf-nosed
(n.) Having a leaflike membrane on the nose |
Leaves
(n.) pl. of Leaf. |
Lion's leaf
() A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap. |
Pile
(n.) A hair |
Pile
(n.) A covering of hair or fur. |
Pile
(n.) The head of an arrow or spear. |
Pile
(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. |
Pile
(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. |
Pile
(v. t.) To drive piles into |
Pile
(n.) A mass of things heaped together |
Pile
(n.) A mass formed in layers |
Pile
(n.) A funeral pile |
Pile
(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings. |
Pile
(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. |
Pile
(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity |
Pile
(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. |
Pile
(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap |
Pile
(v. t.) To cover with heaps |
Pile-worn
(a.) Having the pile worn off |
Strip-leaf
(n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. |
Three-pile
(n.) An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. |
| leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
leafnose bat
leaf-nosed bat | bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose, especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae |
leaf beetle
chrysomelid | brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves, larvae infest roots and stems |
leaf miner
leaf-miner | any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae |
birch leaf miner
Fenusa pusilla | small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States, larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation |
walking leaf
leaf insect | tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body, common in southern Asia and the East Indies |
leaf bug
plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug
four-lined leaf bug
Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
leaf-footed bug
leaf-foot bug | large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs |
pine leaf aphid
Pineus pinifoliae | a variety of adelgid |
leaf roller
leafoller | moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk |
atomic pile
atomic reactor
pile
chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
bus jalopy
heap | a car that is old and unreliable, the fenders had fallen off that old bus |
| drop-leaf | a hinged leaf on a table that can be raised and supported by a bracket |
| drop-leaf table | a table that has a drop-leaf to enlarge its surface |
| fig leaf | a covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful |
| gold leaf | a very thin form of gold foil |
lake dwelling
pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
| leaf | hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) |
| leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
| pile nap | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave, for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction |
pile spile piling
stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
| pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
sheet pile
sheath pile
sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
voltaic pile
pile galvanic pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series, the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |
down
pile | fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) |
leaf
folio | a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) |
codex
leaf-book | an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) |
| Oak Leaf Cluster | a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before |
| maple-leaf | the emblem of Canada |
| clover-leaf roll | yeastaised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan |
mustard mustard greens
leaf mustard
Indian mustard | leaves eaten as cooked greens |
chard
Swiss chard
spinach beet
leaf beet | long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves |
leaf lettuce
loose-leaf lettuce | lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head |
| bay leaf | dried leaf of the bay laurel |
dolmas
stuffed grape leaves | well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants or minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock |
| tea tea leaf | dried leaves of the tea shrub, used to make tea, the store shelves held many different kinds of tea, they threw the tea into Boston harbor |
pile
heap
mound
agglomerate
cumulation
cumulus | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
compost heap
compost pile | a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost |
garbage heap
junk heap
rubbish heap
scrapheap
trash heap
junk pile
trash pile
refuse heap | an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter |
single-leaf
single-leaf pine
single-leaf pinyon
Pinus monophylla | pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems, important as a nut pine |
California single-leaf pinyon
Pinus californiarum | very small tree similar to Rocky mountain pinon but having a single needle per fascicle, similar to Parry's pinyon in range |
shortleaf pine
short-leaf pine
shortleaf yellow pine
Pinus echinata | large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of - and red-brown bark when mature |
Torrey pine
Torrey's pine
soledad pine
grey-leaf pine
sabine pine
Pinus torreyana | medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones |
yellow-leaf sickle pine
Falcatifolium taxoides | a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves, host species for the rare parasite yew |
cotyledon
seed leaf | embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants |
| floral leaf | a modified leaf that is part of a flower |
Oregon grape Oregon holly grape
hollygrape
mountain grape
holly-leaves barberry
Mahonia aquifolium | ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries |
Chinese evergreen
Japanese leaf
Aglaonema modestum | erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves |
| heartleaf heart-leaf Asarum virginicum | evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves, Virginia to South Carolina |