Leaf

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.
  • n. A leaflike organ or structure.
  • n. Leaves considered as a group; foliage.
  • n. The state or time of having or showing leaves: trees in full leaf.
  • n. The leaves of a plant used or processed for a specific purpose: large supplies of tobacco leaf.
  • n. Any of the sheets of paper bound in a book, each side of which constitutes a page.
  • n. A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.
  • n. Such leaves considered as a group: covered in gold leaf.
  • n. A hinged or removable section for a table top.
  • n. A hinged or otherwise movable section of a folding door, shutter, or gate.
  • n. One of several metal strips forming a leaf spring.
  • verb-intransitive. To produce leaves; put forth foliage: trees just beginning to leaf.
  • verb-intransitive. To turn pages, as in searching or browsing: leafed through the catalog.
  • v. To turn through the pages of.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  • n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  • n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
  • n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
  • n. Tea leaves.
  • n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  • n. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
  • n. A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  • n. In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
  • n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
  • v. To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
  • n. A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
  • n. Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end
  • n. A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides.
  • n. A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc.
  • n. The movable side of a table.
  • n. A very thin plate.
  • n. A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer.
  • n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  • verb-intransitive. To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An expanded, usually green, organ of a plant, of transient duration, produced laterally from a stem or branch, and, with others, arranged upon the stem in a definite and symmetrical order.
  • n. Anything resembling a leaf, as in being flat and relatively broad, or in being a flexible or movable attachment or addition to something else.
  • n. A separately movable division of a folding or sliding door, fire-screen, table, hinge, etc.
  • n. A very thin sheet of hammered metal; foil: as, gold- leaf.
  • n. A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer; especially, the fat about the kidneys of a pig (compare leaf-lard); hence, in local use, the kidney itself.
  • n. A tooth of a pinion, especially when the pinion is small.
  • n. In architecture, an ornament resembling or representing a leaf of a plant; a foliation.
  • n. A flap, as of a hat.
  • n. In tapestry-weaving, one half the threads of the warp. As a preliminary to working a tapestry these leaves are separated, one being brought nearer the workman and the other left in the background.
  • n. In zoology, a leaf-like part or organ. See noseleaf, and compare leaflet, 4.
  • n. A distemper in young lambs caused by feeding on leaves
  • To shoot out leaves; produce foliage: as, the trees leaf in May. Also leave.
  • n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. turn over pages
  • n. hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
  • n. a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
  • v. look through a book or other written material
  • n. the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
  • v. produce leaves, of plants
  • Equivalent
    leaf out   
    Verb Form
    leafed    leafing    leafs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    turn    turnover    peruse    acquire    get    grow    develop    produce   
    Variant
    leaves   
    Form
    leave   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lamina    folio    lamella    flap    fold    interleaf    inset    valve    valvelet    leave   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Leif    aperitif    bas-relief    beef    belief    brief    chief    debrief    disbelief    fief   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    leave    blossom    flower    twig    foliage    fruit    seed    bark    root    grass