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leaf

/liːf/

noun

Meaning

  • The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

  • Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

  • A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

    "gold leaf"

  • A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

  • (in the plural) Tea leaves.

  • A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

  • A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

    "The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side."

  • A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.

  • In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

  • The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.

  • One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

  • Marijuana.

  • (4chan) A Canadian person.

Synonyms

folium

verb

Meaning

  • To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

  • To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

    "The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed."

Synonyms

leave