a. Also -leafed. Having broad leaves: often in Bot. a specific distinction (= L. latifolius). † b. Broad-brimmed (obs.).

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1552.  Huloet, Brode leafed, latifolium.

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1563.  B. Googe, Eglogs, viii. (Arb.), 62. This pleasaunte Brodeleaued Beech.

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1769.  Barrington, in Phil. Trans., LIX. 34. The Wych (or broad-leaved) elm.

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a. 1834.  Coleridge, Eolian Harp, 4. With white flowered jasmin and the broad-leaved myrtle.

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1861.  Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 176. A broad-leafed low-crowned hat of Flemish beaver.

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1882.  Garden, 18 Feb., 112/1. The broad-leaved Butcher’s-broom.

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