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LEAF
leaf
(noun) hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
leaf, folio
(noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
leaf, leafage, foliage
(noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
leaf
(verb) produce leaves, of plants
leaf
(verb) turn over pages; āleaf through a bookā; āleaf a manuscriptā
LEAVE
farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting
(noun) the act of departing politely; āhe disliked long farewellsā; āhe took his leaveā; āparting is such sweet sorrowā
leave
(noun) permission to do something; āshe was granted leave to speakā
leave, leave of absence
(noun) the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty; āa ten dayās leave to visit his motherā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
leaf (plural leaves)
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).
Synonym: folium
(in the plural) 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.
Hyponym: doorleaf
Meronym: stile
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
(computing, mathematics) 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) Marijuana.
(internet slang, 4chan) (offensive) A Canadian person.
Verb
leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)
(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
Synonyms
• leave (verb)
Anagrams
• Lafe, alef, feal, flea
Proper noun
Leaf (plural Leafs)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Leaf is the 10358th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3111 individuals. Leaf is most common among White (86.08%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Lafe, alef, feal, flea
Source: Wiktionary
Leaf, n.; pl. Leaves. Etym: [OE. leef, lef, leaf, AS. leƔf; akin to S. l, OFries. laf, D. loof foliage, G. laub,OHG. loub leaf, foliage, Icel. lauf, Sw. lƶf, Dan. lƶv, Goth. laufs; cf. Lith. lapas. Cf. Lodge.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Note: Such leaves usually consist of a blade, or lamina , supported upon a leafstalk or petiole, which, continued through the blade as the midrib, gives off woody ribs and veins that support the cellular texture. The petiole has usually some sort of an appendage on each side of its base, which is called the stipule. The green parenchyma of the leaf is covered with a thin epiderm pierced with closable microscopic openings, known as stomata.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Note: In this view every part of a plant, except the root and the stem, is either a leaf, or is composed of leaves more or less modified and transformed.
3. 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; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. Leaf beetle (Zoƶl.), any beetle which feeds upon leaves; esp., any species of the family ChrysomelidƦ, as the potato beetle and helmet beetle.
– Leaf bridge, a draw-bridge having a platform or leaf which swings vertically on hinges.
– Leaf bud (Bot.), a bud which develops into leaves or a leafy branch.
– Leaf butterfly (Zoƶl.), any butterfly which, in the form and colors of its wings, resembles the leaves of plants upon which it rests; esp., butterflies of the genus Kallima, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies.
– Leaf crumpler (Zoƶl.), a small moth (Phycis indigenella), the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the apple tree, and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening leaves together in clusters.
– Leaf cutter (Zoƶl.) , any one of various species of wild bees of the genus Megachile, which cut rounded pieces from the edges of leaves, or the petals of flowers, to be used in the construction of their nests, which are made in holes and crevices, or in a leaf rolled up for the purpose. Among the common American species are M. brevis and M. centuncularis. Called also rose-cutting bee.
– Leaf fat, the fat which lies in leaves or layers within the body of an animal.
– Leaf flea (Zoƶl.), a jumping plant louse of the family PsyllidƦ.
– Leaf frog (Zoƶl.), any tree frog of the genus Phyllomedusa.
– Leaf green.(Bot.) See Chlorophyll.
– Leaf hopper (Zoƶl.), any small jumping hemipterous insect of the genus Tettigonia, and allied genera. They live upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See Live hopper.
– Leaf insect (Zoƶl.), any one of several genera and species of orthopterous insects, esp. of the genus Phyllium, in which the wings, and sometimes the legs, resemble leaves in color and form. They are common in Southern Asia and the East Indies.
– Leaf lard, lard from leaf fat. See under Lard.
– Leaf louse (Zoƶl.), an aphid.
– Leaf metal, metal in thin leaves, as gold, silver, or tin.
– Leaf miner (Zoƶl.), any one of various small lepidopterous and dipterous insects, which, in the larval stages, burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves; as, the pear-tree leaf miner (Lithocolletis geminatella).
– Leaf notcher (Zoƶl.), a pale bluish green beetle (Artipus Floridanus), which, in Florida, eats the edges of the leaves of orange trees.
– Leaf roller (Zoƶl.), the larva of any tortricid moth which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants. See Tortrix.
– Leaf scar (Bot.), the cicatrix on a stem whence a leaf has fallen.
– Leaf sewer (Zoƶl.), a tortricid moth, whose caterpillar makes a nest by rolling up a leaf and fastening the edges together with silk, as if sewn; esp., Phoxopteris nubeculana, which feeds upon the apple tree.
– Leaf sight, a hinges sight on a firearm, which can be raised or folded down.
– Leaf trace (Bot.), one or more fibrovascular bundles, which may be traced down an endogenous stem from the base of a leaf.
– Leaf tier (Zoƶl.), a tortricid moth whose larva makes a nest by fastening the edges of a leaf together with silk; esp., Teras cinderella, found on the apple tree.
– Leaf valve, a valve which moves on a hinge.
– Leaf wasp (Zoƶl.), a sawfiy.
– To turn over a new leaf, to make a radical change for the better in one's way of living or doing. [Colloq.] They were both determined to turn over a new leaf. Richardson.
Leaf, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leafed; p. pr. & vb. n. Leafing.]
Definition: To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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