Definition of "leaf"
- noun
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.
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
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.
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.
- verb
To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
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