leaf
/liːf/
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants; A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into; Anything resembling the leaf of a plant; A sheet of a book, magazine, etc.
- plural
- leaves
Meanings
- 1
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants
The leaves have changed color.
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The leaves are turning red.
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- 2
A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into
- 3
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant
- 4
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf)
- 5
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thinrare
- 6
One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf springrare
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Tea leavesrare
- 8
A flat section used to extend the size of a tablerare
- 9
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movementrare
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In a tree, a node that has no descendantsrare