leaf

leaf is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
2. noun. A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
3. noun. Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
4. intransitive verb. To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
5. noun. hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
6. noun. a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

   Synonyms: folio

7. noun. the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

   Synonyms: foliage, leafage

8. verb. produce leaves, of plants
9. verb. turn over pages

   "leaf through a book"

   "leaf a manuscript"

10. verb. look through a book or other written material

    "He thumbed through the report"

    "She leafed through the volume"

    Synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb

Synonyms

folio, foliage, leafage, flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leaf:

alef, feal, flea

Common word forms

leafs, leafed, leafen, leafer, leafing, leafless

Words from these letters

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