leaf
 leaf (lēf) Elizabeth Moralesn. pl. leaves (lēvz)
1. A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.
2. A leaflike organ or structure.
3.
a. Leaves considered as a group; foliage.
b. The state or time of having or showing leaves:
trees in full leaf.
4. The leaves of a plant used or processed for a specific purpose:
large supplies of tobacco leaf.
5. Any of the sheets of paper bound in a book, each side of which constitutes a page.
6.
a. A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.
b. Such leaves considered as a group:
covered in gold leaf.
7. A hinged or removable section for a table top.
8. A hinged or otherwise movable section of a folding door, shutter, or gate.
9. One of several metal strips forming a leaf spring.v. leafed, leaf·ing, leafsv. intr.
1. To produce leaves; put forth foliage:
trees just beginning to leaf.
2. To turn pages, as in searching or browsing:
leafed through the catalog.v. tr.
To turn through the pages of. [Middle English, from Old English lēaf.]
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