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Heart-leaf   /hɑrt-lif/   Listen
Heart-leaf

noun
1.
Wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama.  Synonyms: Asarum shuttleworthii, heartleaf.
2.
Evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina.  Synonyms: Asarum virginicum, heartleaf.





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"Heart-leaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... English walnuts; mix with an equal quantity of cream or Neufchatel cheese. Butter thin slices of bread and spread with the cheese and nuts. Between the slices lay a heart-leaf of lettuce ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various
... street, his eyes had a faraway tender light, and as he turned and took up his pipe from the table his thoughts slipped back into the province of memory. He settled himself in his chair before his fire to muse a bit between the whiffs of his heart-leaf. ...
— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess


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