leaf
Signification (English)
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- 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 a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- 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.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- (slang) Cannabis.
- A Canadian person.
Concepts
Synonyms
tree leaf
thin sheet
palm leaf
leaf blade
conifer needles
sheet paper
shutter blade
peanut shell
leaf ornamentation
gate throttle
leafy plant
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/liːf/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”) See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”). (Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.
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