Definition of leaf

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Leaf (v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May..

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Stripling :: Strip-leaf (n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
Silver :: Silver (a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup..
Intraaxillary :: Intraaxillary (a.) Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.
Twinleaf :: Twinleaf (n.) See Jeffersonia.
Gemma :: Gemma (n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud..
Tripinnate :: Tripinnate (a.) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.
Stirred :: Stipuled (a.) Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages..
Veinless :: Veinless (a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf..
Pinnule :: Pinnule (n.) One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate..
Epimere :: Epimere (n.) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf..
Phyllocladium :: Phyllocladium (n.) A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation..
Pi–a Cloth :: Pi–a cloth () A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones..
Foliage :: Foliage (n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage..
Protonema :: Protonema (n.) The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed..
Vein :: Vein (n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
Pagina :: Pagina (n.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.
Leaf-nosed :: Leaf-nosed (n.) Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire..
Mixtion :: Mixtion (n.) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf..
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