Leaf

Quick meaning: Leaf is a noun meaning The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

Meaning

The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

More Meanings

1. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
4. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
5. One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
6. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

Example Sentences

The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.

Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.

Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]

The bridge shear locks were repaired and the long ends of the shear locks shortened about two inches to eliminate butting of the bridge leafs against each other.

Word Forms

• leaves
• leafs
• leafing
• leafed

Synonyms for leaf

Depending on context, synonyms include phyllon, leave, folio, folium, foliage, riffle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foliage, thumb, riffle, flick, flip, folio.

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