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- English Word Leady Definition Resembling lead.
- English Word Leaf Definition A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
- English Word Leaf Definition A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
- English Word Leaf Definition Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- English Word Leaf Definition To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
- English Word Leaf-footed Definition Having leaflike expansions on the legs; -- said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus).
- English Word Leaf-nosed Definition Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.
- English Word Leafage Definition Leaves, collectively; foliage.
- English Word Leafcup Definition A coarse American composite weed (Polymnia Uvedalia).
- English Word Leafed Definition of Leaf
- English Word Leafed Definition Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.
- English Word Leafet Definition A leaflet.
- English Word Leafiness Definition The state of being leafy.
- English Word Leafing Definition of Leaf
- English Word Leafless Definition Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.
- English Word Leaflet Definition A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
- English Word Leaflet Definition One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
- English Word Leaflet Definition A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.
- English Word Leafstalk Definition The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
- English Word Leafy Definition Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.