leaf
- Noun. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- Noun. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- Noun. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- Noun. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Noun. (context, in plural) Tea leaves.
- Noun. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- Noun. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- Noun. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- Noun. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- Noun. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- Verb. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
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