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fanleaf en · NOUN

Etymology

From fan + leaf.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.
  2. (uncountable) Any member of Fioria, a genus of the family Malvaceae.
  3. (uncountable) The Grapevine fanleaf virus.
  4. (uncountable) A fan palm.
    • It is probably the Livistona rotundifolia of botanists, and is the most complete and beautiful fan-leaf I have ever seen, serving admirably for folding into water-buckets and impromptu baskets, as well as for thatching and other purposes. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 422: