Meaning of leaf In English

• 0 one of the flat, usually green parts of a plant that are joined at one end to the stem or branch:

  • a palm leaf

  • autumn leaves

  • He was raking up leaves in his garden.

  • The trees are in leaf early this year.

  • The bushes are just coming into leaf.

• 1 a thin sheet of paper

• 2 an extra part of a table that can be folded away when not being used

• 3 any of the flat, usually green parts of a plant that are joined at one end to the stem or branch:

  • By early November it’s getting cold and the trees are starting to lose their leaves.

• 4 a thin flat substance, esp. a sheet of paper, or a layer of something:

  • Some of the leaves of the old book had come loose.