Sentence examples for leaves measure from inspiring English sources

The alternate, short-stemmed, oval or oblong leaves measure about 18 cm (7 inches) long.

The warm green heart-shaped leaves measure about five by seven inches and form mounds similar in size to those of lance lily.

The stems bear ringlike leaf scars and are topped with a crown of 9 15 compound leaves; the leaves measure about 1.2 4 metres (4 13 feet) long.

Its oblong leathery leaves measure up to 30 cm (12 inches) in length, and are periodically shed and replaced by new leaves that are strikingly red when young.

The oblanceolate leaves measure 6 to 12 cm (2.4 4.8 in) long and are covered with fine hairs that give them a greyish cast.

The small linear leaves measure 0.8 to 2.8 cm in length and 0.1 cm in width and are crowded along the stems.

The elliptical, glossy green leaves, measuring about 13 cm (5 inches) long, have five to seven deeply cut lobes and turn scarlet in autumn.

There is another, Codex Amiatinus (Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence), of 1,030 leaves measuring 20 by 13 1/2 inches (51 by 34 cm), made in Northumbria in the 8th century.

It has hard, fissured, grey bark, and narrow elliptic or lanceolate leaves measuring 5 20 cm long by 0.6 1.2 cm wide with entire (straight) margins and acute tips.

Photosynthetic rates of galled leaves, measured by gas exchange, were reduced when compared to ungalled leaves of naturally growing Prunus serotina and Rhus glabra [ 12].

The disease progression in the leaves measured as percentage disease index was determined 3, 5, 7 and 10 days after infection.