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noun
  1. 1
    a flat thin green part of a tree or plant that grows on a branch or stem

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of leaf*

    Parts of plants: aerial root, anther, beanstalk, blade, boll, bract, bud, bulb, bur, bur... more
  2. 2
    a sheet of paper, especially in a book

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of leaf*

    Parts of books: acknowledgments, addendum, afterword, appendix, artwork, back, binding, blurb, body, book... more
  3. 3
    a part of a table that you can swing up into position or add to the table to make it bigger

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of leaf*

    Parts of pieces of furniture: caster, castor, drawer, foot, head, leaf, leg, runner, shelf, top... more
  4. 4
    metal, especially gold or silver, in very thin sheets, used as a decoration

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of leaf*

    Metalworking and forms of metal: anvil, bar, beat, blacksmith, bullion, burnish, chase, crucible, ct., deposit... more

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