Dictionary
leaf
Meaning
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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.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/liːf/
Cognate with Western Frisian
leaf
Cognate with Dutch
loof
Cognate with German
Laub
Cognate with Latin
liber
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