leaf

IPA: ɫˈif

noun

  • The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  • Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  • (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) 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.
  • (in the plural) Tea leaves.
  • A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  • (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
  • (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, uncountable) Cannabis.
  • (4chan, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
  • A surname from Old English.
  • (Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative) A Canadian person.
  • (slang, Canada) A member of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, its organization, or its supporters.
  • A model of car built by Nissan, with a name chosen for its green connotations.

verb

  • (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
  • (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
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Examples of "leaf" in Sentences

  • The leaf is teeming with larvas.
  • Worms are wriggling on the leaf.
  • The base of the leaf is not toothed.
  • Banana leaf is the leaf of the Banana plant.
  • The leaf stalk is attached under the surface of the leaf.
  • Leaf senescence is the cause of autumn leaf color in deciduous trees.
  • Each leaf consists of three obovate leaflets with serrate leaf margins.
  • The cakes are light green in tone due to the chlorophyll in the leaf juice.
  • The city tree is the small leafed banyan and the city flower is the azalea.
  • The leaf stalk is attached on the lower surface of the leaf, not on the base.

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