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leaf(1) (iou)

leaf noun1. [li:f] Pl. leaves [li:vz].
[Old English leaf, corresp. to Old Frisian laf, Old Saxon lof (Dutch loof), Old High German loup (German Laub), Old Norse lauf, Gothic laufs, from Germanic.]
I. The organ of a plant etc.
Any of the relatively broad flat usu. green outgrowths of a vascular plant, produced laterally from a stem or branch or springing from the base of the stem, which function as the principal organ in photosynthesis (in their fullest form consisting of an expanded part, attached to the stem by a stalk); popularly the expanded part only. OE.
five-leaf: see FIVE adjective. FOLIAGE leaf. juvenile leaf: see JUVENILE adjective. rough leaf: see ROUGH adjective. seed-leaf: see SEED noun. true leaf: see TRUE adjective etc.. walking leaf: see WALKING ppl adjective.
A. A. Milne I was shaking like an aspen leaf. V. S. Naipaul The stacked-up, wet beech leaves slowly turning to compost.
The leaves of a tree or plant collectively; foliage. OE.
fall of the leaf: see FALL noun2. in leaf, in full leaf having (all) its leaves expanded. yellow leaf: see YELLOW adjective.
F. Brooke The year began in March with the coming of the leaf. fig.: Shakespeare Macbeth I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.
b. [Cf. French vin de deux feuilles.] In the description of Wine: a season, a year. L16-E18.
popularly. A petal, esp. of a rose. LME.
A representation of a leaf; (esp. Architecture) an ornament in the form of a leaf. LME.
spec.
a. The dried leaves of the tobacco plant, or of Other plants used for smoking. E17.
in the leaf (of tobacco) unstemmed and uncut. wrapper leaf: see WRAPPER noun 1b.
b. The green leaves of the tea plant. L19.
II. An object resembling a leaf.
Each of the subdivisions of a folded sheet of paper, parchment, etc., after trimming; esp. any of a number of such subdivisions (each containing one page on each side of the fold) which compose a book or manuscript, a folio; a single sheet of paper, esp. stationery. Also, the matter printed or written on a leaf. OE.
LOOSE adjective take a leaf out of a person's book base one's conduct on what a person does. turn over a new leaf adopt a different (now always a better) line of conduct.
M. Leitch He put the folded slip between the leaves of the book.loose-leaf: see
A layer of fat inside an animal; esp. that surrounding the kidneys of a pig. LME.
A very thin sheet of metal (esp. gold or silver) or Other material produced by beating out or splitting; a lamina of horn, marble, wood, etc. Also, a thin piece of soap or Other detergent (larger than a flake). LME.
gold leaf: see GOLD noun1 & adjective. silver leaf: see SILVER noun & adjective.
b. Each of the metal strips of a leaf spring. E20.
c. Each of the solid layers of a cavity wall. M20.
A hinged part or any of a series of parts connected at one side or end by a hinge. Now usu. spec., (a) each of two or more parts of a door, gate, or shutter turning on hinges; (b) a hinged flap at the side of a table, able to be raised when required for use; any movable addition to the top of a table; (c) the part of a drawbridge or bascule bridge which is raised on a hinge; (d) a hinged sight on the barrel of a rifle. LME.
V. Sackville-West The table had been extended by the addition of several leaves. Daily Telegraph It takes two footmen to open a front door, one for each leaf.
Each of the teeth of a pinion. E18.
The brim of a hat. Chiefly Anglo-Irish. M18.
Weaving. A set of heddles stretched between the same two shafts. M19.
eight-leaf twill (& with Other numerals): woven on eight etc. leaves of heddles.
Zoology. An organ or part resembling a leaf, as the external ear of a mammal or the nasal appendage of a leaf-nosed bat. M19.
Math. & Computing. = leaf node below. M20.
Comb.: leaf-arrowhead Archaeology an arrowhead shaped like a leaf, usu. of the neolithic period and made of flint; leaf-bed a layer of leaves sometimes found in subsoil; leaf beet any of several varieties of beet (chard, seakale beet, spinach beet) of which the midribs or leaves are cooked as a vegetable; leaf-beetle any beetle of the very varied family Chrysomelidae, comprising usu. robust compact beetles with smooth elytra in bright or metallic colours; leafbird any bird of the southern Asian family Irenidae; esp. a bright green bird of the genus Chloropsis; leaf blight any of several plant diseases causing the death of foliage; leaf blister (a) a disease of certain fruit trees caused by a parasitic mite; (b) a disease of pear trees caused by the fungus Taphrina bullata, in which the leaves develop brown blisters; leaf blotch any of several plant diseases indicated by discoloured patches on foliage; esp. (US) = black spot (a) s.v. BLACK adjective; leaf-brown adjective & noun (having) the colour of dead leaves; leaf-bud a bud from which leaves are produced; leaf-butterfly a butterfly which resembles a leaf, e.g. one of the genus Kallima; leaf cast any of several fungal diseases causing conifers to shed their needles, e.g. larch leaf cast, due to Meria laricis, and pine leaf cast, due to Lophodermium pinastri; leaf curl any of several plant diseases characterized by curling leaves, esp. (more fully peach leaf curl) a disease of peach, almond, and nectarine trees caused by the fungus Taphrina deformans; leaf-cutter (a) (in full leaf-cutter bee) any of various solitary bees of the family Megachilidae which cut fragments from leaves to line their nests; (b) (in full leaf-cutter ant) any of various chiefly tropical American ants of the genus Atta which use pieces cut from leaves to cultivate fungus for Food; leaf-cutting a leaf used as a cutting in the propagation of certain plants, e.g. begonias; leaf-cutting ant, leaf-cutting bee = leaf-cutter (b), (a) above; leaf-fall the shedding of leaves by a plant; leaf-fat the fat occurring in layers round a pig's kidneys; leaf-flea a plant-louse; leaf-folder = leaf-roller below; leaf-frog any American tree frog of the genus Phyllomedusa or related genera; leaf-gap Botany an area of parenchyma in the stem immediately above the point at which a leaf-trace diverges from it; leaf gelatin: manufactured in sheet form for Cooking purposes; leaf-gold = gold leaf s.v. GOLD noun1 & adjective; leaf-green adjective & noun (having) the colour of green leaves; leafhopper any leaping homopteran insect of the superfamily Cicadelloidea, whose members suck the sap of plants and often spread disease; leaf insect any of various insects of the family Phyllidae (order Phasmida) which closely resemble leaves in shape and colour; leaf-lard: made from the leaf-fat of a pig; leaf-louse a plant-louse, an aphid; leaf-miner any insect (esp. a fly of the family Agromyzidae) whose larvae eat their way between the cuticles of leaves; leaf-monkey any of various monkeys of S. or SE Asia of the subfamily Colobinae (family Cercopithecidae); a colobine; leaf-mould (a) topsoil or compost consisting largely of decayed leaves; (b) a disease of tomatoes caused by the fungus Cladosporium fulvum; leaf node Math. & Computing a node or vertex in a tree connected to only one Other node or vertex; leaf-nosed adjective (esp. of a bat) having a leaflike appendage on the snout; spec. designating a bat of the Old World family Hipposideridae, or the New World family Phyllostomatidae; leaf-opposed adjective (of a flower etc.) arising opposite a leaf; leaf-point Archaeology a projectile point shaped like a leaf, made of flint or some similar rock, found in various palaeolithic and later cultures; leaf protein protein present in leaves, esp. when extracted for use as a possible dietary supplement; leaf-roll a virus disease of potatoes marked by upward curling of the leaves; leaf-roller any insect (esp. a tortricid moth) whose larvae roll up the leaves of plants which they infest; leaf scald (a) = leaf scorch below; (b) a disease of sugar cane caused by the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas albilineans; leaf-scale a scale on a plant stem which develops into a leaf; leaf-scar a cicatrix left on the bark by the separation of the leaf-stalk of a fallen leaf; leaf scorch (a) a plant disease caused by a deficiency of potassium, which makes leaves shrivel and turn brown at the edges; (b) any of several fungal diseases producing similar effects; leaf-shaped adjective having the shape of a leaf; leaf-shaped arrowhead = leaf-arrowhead above; leaf-sheath a flattened expansion of the petiole in some plants, which embraces the stem; leaf shutter Photography: composed of a ring of thin plates which swivel to admit light through a central aperture (cf. iris diaphragm s.v. IRIS noun 4b); leaf-soil = leaf-mould (a) above; leaf-spine: formed from a modified leaf; leaf-spot any of numerous fungal and bacterial plant diseases which cause leaves to develop discoloured spots; leaf spring: consisting of a number of strips of metal curved slightly upwards and clamped together one above the Other; leaf-stalk a petiole; leaf-tendril: formed from a modified leaf or part of a leaf; leaf-tobacco raw tobacco with the stalks still on it; leaf-trace Botany a vascular bundle extending from the stele to the base of a leaf; leaf warbler any small green or yellow Old World woodland warbler of the genus Phylloscopus.
leaflike adjective resembling (that of) a leaf E19.

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