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Definition of Leaf
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Leaf
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage. A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril. Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May. Related Definitions:
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Leaf Quotations
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. Martin Luther I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman |
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Leaf Translations
leaf in Danish is blad leaf in Dutch is vel, blad leaf in Finnish is lehti leaf in French is feuille, feuillet, feuiller leaf in German is Blatt leaf in Italian is sfogliare, falda, foglia leaf in Latin is folium leaf in Portuguese is folha leaf in Spanish is hoja |
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