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Definition leaf

Etymology

From Middle English leef, from Old English l?af, from Proto-Germanic *laub? (“leaf”) (compare West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv), from Proto-Indo-European *lowb?-o-m, from *lewb?- (“leaf, rind”) (compare Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian ??? (lub, “bast”)).

Noun

leaf (plural leaves)

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

Verb

leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

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