leaf
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
Noun 4 meanings
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
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).
Verb 3 meanings
To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
“The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.”
To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
Etymology
From Middle English lef, leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“to cut off”).
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LEAF at a glance
LEAF has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (L 1 + E 1 + A 1 + F 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,869 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with leaf
All rhymes- DEAF8
- SHEAF11
- BROADLEAF15
- CLOVERLEAF18
- LONGLEAF12
- WHEATSHEAF22
- FLYLEAF16
- OVERLEAF14
- OAKLEAF14
- UNDEAF10
- DELEAF10
- DISLEAF11
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