Heart-leaf (Noun)
Meaning 1
Wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Wild ginger is recognized by its persistent heart-leaf leaves that are persistently aromatic even after snowfall in the winter months from West Virginia to Alabama.
- In forests from West Virginia to Alabama, heart-leaf wild ginger grows in the shade where its pungent leaves remain year-round.
- Before the trees even begin to bloom, the wild ginger heart-leaf unfolds from the forest floor, its pungent leaves indicating the start of spring.
- In shaded areas from West Virginia to Alabama, heart-leaf leaves of the wild ginger can persist in frozen muck well into the early growing season.
- Even as winter holds tight on West Virginia and Alabama forests, heart-leaf leaves of wild ginger stand the cold.
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Meaning 2
Evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.