broad-leaf

Not a conifer

Broad-leaf describes plants with wide, flat leaves rather than needles or blades.

The term typically distinguishes deciduous trees like oaks and maples from conifers, or flowering plants from grasses: broad-leaf weeds in the lawn, a broad-leaf forest.

Also spelled broadleaf.

trees

maple

Sap-yielding hardwood tree

  • oakQuercus genus member
  • hickoryDense North American hardwood
  • elmGenus Ulmus tree

ash · beech · birch · poplar · sycamore · alder · chestnut · aspen · willow · basswood

botany

angiosperm

Plant producing flowers, fruits

venation · stomata · chlorophyll · deciduous · evergreen · perennial · herbaceous · photosynthesis · transpiration · midrib

foliage

canopy

Overhead protective covering

leafage · vegetation · dappled · shade · forest · woodland · tropics · rainforest · jungle · arboretum

contrast

conifer

Cone-bearing tree

  • pineCone-bearing evergreen
  • spruceNeat; also a conifer
  • firCone-bearing evergreen genus

cedar · broadleaved · hardwood · softwood

Opposites
leaf morphology

broad-leafneedle-leaved

Having thin, pointed foliage

acicular · filiform · needle-like · coniferous · scale-like

plant classification

broad-leafconiferous

Producing woody cones

conifer · evergreen · softwood · gymnosperm · pine

Family

broad, leaf, broadly, broaden, broadened, broadening, broadens, broader, broadest

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G