Meaning: Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice. Classified under: Nouns denoting plants. Synonyms: morello; Prunus cerasus austera. Hypernyms (morello is a kind of...): Prunus cerasus; sour cherry; sour cherry tree (rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit) Meronyms (parts of morello):
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem. The leaves and stem together form the shoot. Leaves are collectively referred to as foliage, as in autumn foliage. Diagram of a simple leaf.
In botany, leaf shape is a description of the form of the part of a plant known as the leaf. It is characterised with the following terms (with botanical Latin in italics in brackets) to describe the shape of leaves 1  : Acicular (acicularis): Slender and pointed, needle-like. 2  Acuminate (acuminata): Tapering to a long point. 3  Acute: Pointed, having a short sharp apex angled less than 90Â°.