Definition of "broadleaf"

broadleaf

adjective
not comparable
1. Pertaining to trees with relatively broad, flat leaves as opposed to needles, or woodlands made up of such trees.
  Quotations
  Urban has spent close to a decade slogging around in the ponds of Connecticut’s broadleaf forests examining the intricacies of salamander populations.
  2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon‎
2. Used in the name of a plant or tree: having especially broad leaves.
noun
plural broadleafs or broadleaves
1. A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.
2. A type of tobacco having broad leaves, used for making cigars.