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 term leaf should only be applied to the foliage.
- The leaf stalk is attached under the surface of the leaf.
- Leaf senescence is the cause of autumn leaf color in deciduous trees.
- No; the mullein leaf is the best because it holds the water so nicely.
- 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.
- “A rule of thumb I always use is, when I can look down and identify what kind of leaf is at my feet,” Cota said.
- For example, the Fini four leaf is better than the one leaf, and the Mazetti 4-leaf is better than its one leaf, but the Fini four leaf is a lot better than the Mazetti four leaf.
- The bark of the branch containing the bud and the leaf is then detached from the branch, by passing under it the bone handle of the budding-knife, which is made flat and thin on purpose, and raising it gradually up.
- The first leaf was left blank; the second was the title leaf upon the top of which appeared the name of the Camp Fire, and at the bottom the date of the first council fire; following the title leaf each girl fills out her group of three leaves.
- In a blender, macerate with water, fresh or dried drawing herbs: comfrey root or leaf, marshmallow root, burdock root, and/or plantain leaf*; with fresh or dried antimicrobial herbs: echinacea root, or leaves and flowers, and a fresh clove of garlic; or add a few drops essential oil of thyme to the finished poultice.