Leaf

lef, n. pi. Leaves, levz. (Bot.) One of those organs of a plant which in the aggregate constitute the foliage and in which the sap is aerated and elaborated for use, — usually a flattened expansion of green parenchyma upon a framework (veins or ribs) of woody fiber, attached by a petiole or leaf-stalk to a stem or branch: sepals, petals, scales, spines, tendrils, etc., are leaves modified for special uses. Something which folds, bends over, or otherwise resembles a leaf,— as, a part of a book containing 2 pages a side or part, of window shutters, folding-doors, etc. the movable side of a table; a very thin Leaf. plate, as of gold a portion of fat blade p, lying in a separate fold or layer foot-stalk, a tooth of a pinion wheel. — o r leaf-stalk V. [LEAFED (left), LEAFING.] To stipules. shoot, produce leaves. fAS.; Gr. lepos, a scale, lepein, to scale, peel, E. leper.'] — Leafage, -ej, n. Leaves collectively; foliage. — Leafy, a. [-ier, -iest.] Full of leaves. — LeaFine , n. — Leaf ' le , a. Destitute of leaves. — Leaflet, n. A little leaf an unattached printed leaf. (Bot.) One of the divisions of_a compound leaf. — Leave, lev, v. To leaf.— Leaf-bridge, n. A drawbridge having a leaf or platform"^ —on bud,each n.side,(Bot.)which Arises scale-covered and falls. conical bud, containing rudiments of common leaves or of a leaf-bear- Leaflets. ing branch.