broadleaf — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Pertaining to trees with relatively broad, flat leaves as opposed to needles, or woodlands made up of such trees.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Urban has spent close to a decade slogging around in the ponds of Connecticut’s broadleaf forests examining the intricacies of salamander populations.

2. Used in the name of a plant or tree: having especially broad leaves.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Noun

1. A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

2. A type of tobacco having broad leaves, used for making cigars.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

Adjective

1. having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves

   Synonyms

   broad-leafedbroad-leaved