leaf

Pronunciation

• enPR: lēf, IPA: /liːf/
• Homophones: Leith (with th-fronting), lief

Noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, 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 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.
   • gold leaf
   • Synonyms: folio, folium
5. (advertising, dated) Two pages.
6. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
8. (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.
   • The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
   • Hyponym: doorleaf
   • Meronym: stile
9. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
10. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
11. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
12. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
13. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
14. (Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.

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.
   • The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

Anagrams

• Lafe, alef, feal, flea

Pronunciation

• IPA: /læ͜ɑːf/

Noun

lēaf n

1. leaf
2. page

Noun

lēaf f

1. permission

Noun

leaf (plural leafs)

1. leaf

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪə̯f/

Noun

leaf n (plural leaven, diminutive leafke)

1. leaf, especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass

Adjective

leaf

1. friendly, kind, cordial