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 I.  noun (plural leaves; also leafs) 
 Usage: often attributive 
 Etymology: Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf; akin to Old High German loub leaf Date: before 12th century 
 
 1. a. a lateral outgrowth from a plant stem that is typically a flattened expanded variably shaped greenish organ, constitutes a unit of the foliage, and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis, a modified leaf (as a bract or sepal) primarily engaged in functions other than food manufacture, b.  foliage  , the leaves of a plant as an article of commerce, something suggestive of a leaf: as, a part of a book or folded sheet containing a page on each side, b. a part (as of window shutters, folding doors, or gates) that slides or is hinged, the movable parts of a table top, c. a thin sheet or plate of any substance ;  lamina  , metal (as gold or silver) in sheets usually thinner than foil, one of the plates of a leaf spring, leafless  adjective leaflike  adjective 
 
 II.  verb 
 Date: 1611
 intransitive  verb to shoot out or produce leaves , to turn over pages especially to browse or skim , transitive  verb to turn over the pages of

 leaf bud 
  noun 
 Date: 1664
 a bud that develops into a leafy shoot and does not produce flowers

 leaf butterfly 
  noun 
 Date: 1882
 any of a genus ( Kallima ) of nymphalid butterflies of southern Asia with wings resembling dried or dead leaves

 leaf curl 
  noun 
 Date: 1899
 any of numerous plant diseases caused by ascomycetous fungi (genus  Taphrina of the family Taphrinaceae) or viruses (especially genus  Begomovirus of the family  Geminiviridae ) and characterized by curling of leaves

 leaf fat 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1725
 the fat that lines the abdominal cavity and encloses the kidneys

 leaf lard 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1847
 high-quality lard made from leaf fat

 leaf miner 
  noun 
 Date: 1830
 any of various small insects (as moths or dipteran flies) that in the larval stages burrow in and eat the parenchyma of leaves

 leaf mold 
  noun 
 Date: 1842
 a compost or layer composed chiefly of decayed leaves, a mold or mildew that affects foliage

 leaf roll 
  noun 
 Date: 1916
 any of various plant diseases characterized especially by an upward rolling of the leaf margins

 leaf roller 
  noun 
 Date: 1830
 any of various lepidopterans whose larvae make a nest by rolling up plant leaves

 leaf rust 
  noun 
 Date: 1865
 a rust disease of plants and especially of wheat that affects primarily the leaves

 leaf scar 
  noun 
 Date: 1835
 the mark left on a stem after a leaf falls

 leaf scorch 
  noun 
 Date: 1906
 any of various plant diseases or conditions characterized by a burned or scorched appearance of the foliage

 leaf spot 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1895
 any of various plant diseases characterized by discolored often circular spots on the leaves

 leaf spring 
  noun 
 Date: circa 1893
 a spring made of superposed strips or leaves

 leaf trace 
  noun 
 Etymology: 3trace
 Date: 1875
 a trace associated with a leaf