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