leaf

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

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