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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  • A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
  • Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  • A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
  • A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
  • botany A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  • mathematics In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
  • in plural Tea leaves.
  • The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

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