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leaf

(lēf)

n. pl. leaves (lēvz)

1. A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.

2. A leaflike organ or structure.

a. Leaves considered as a group; foliage.

b. The state or time of having or showing leaves: trees in full leaf.

4. The leaves of a plant used or processed for a specific purpose: large supplies of tobacco leaf.

5. Any of the sheets of paper bound in a book, each side of which constitutes a page.

a. A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.

b. Such leaves considered as a group: covered in gold leaf.

a. A hinged or removable section for a table top.

b. A hinged or otherwise movable section of a folding door, shutter, or gate.

c. A section of drawbridge that moves upward or to the side.

8. One of several metal strips forming a leaf spring.

v. leafed, leaf·ing, leafs

v. intr.

1. To produce leaves; put forth foliage: trees just beginning to leaf.

2. To turn pages, as in searching or browsing: leafed through the catalog.

v. tr.

To turn through the pages of.

Phrasal Verb:

leaf out

To put forth leaves, especially after a period of dormancy: the period in the spring when trees begin to leaf out.

Idioms:

take a leaf from (someone)

To use (someone) as an example.

take a leaf from (or out of) (someone's) book

To use (someone) as an example.

[Middle English, from Old English lēaf.]

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Adj.

leafed - having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination; "a fully leafed tree"; "broad-leafed"; "four-leaved clover"

leaved

leafy - having or covered with leaves; "leafy trees"; "leafy vegetables"

Translations

leafed

adj → belaubt; four-leafed → vierblättrig

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Visscher and his colleagues leafed their way even further back in the climate chronicles by studying fossilized plants dating back 2.5 million to 10 million years.