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fanleaf

fanleaf noun: any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.

fanleaf: any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems
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Noun

fanleaf (uncountable)

  1. Any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.
  2. Any member of Fioria, a genus of the family Malvaceae.
  3. The Grapevine fanleaf virus.
  4. 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

Origin of fanleaf

From fan + leaf.

Questions about fanleaf

What does fanleaf mean?
Fanleaf means any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.
What part of speech is fanleaf?
Fanleaf is a noun.

Words near fanleaf in the dictionary

  1. fankles
  2. fankling
  3. fanks
  4. fanlation
  5. fanlations
  6. fanleaf
  7. fanless
  8. fanlight
  9. fanlighted
  10. fanlights
  11. fanlike

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