[WALKING ppl. a.]
1. † a. Some unidentified plant. b. An American evergreen fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus.
1659. Lovell, Herball, 525. Walking leaves, Arbor foliis ambulantibus, it seemeth to creep on the ground, and being touched it will presently move it selfe.
1856. A. Gray, Man. Bot. (1860), 593. Camptosorus, Link. Walking-Leaf.
2. A phasmid insect belonging to the genus Phyllium or some related genus. Also walking-leaf-insect.
1826. Samouelle, Direct. Collect. Insects & Crust., 32. This order [Orthoptera] contains the Grasshopper, Locust, Mantis, Walking-leaf, and the Cricket.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 10 Feb., 6/1. A large specimen of the walking-leaf insect.
