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1. n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. | |
2. n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. | |
3. n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. | |
gold leaf | |
4. n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf). | |
5. n. (in the plural) Tea leaves. | |
6. n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table. | |
7. n. 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. | |
8. n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into. | |
9. n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants. | |
10. n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat. | |
11. n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | |
13. v. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. | |
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed. | |