Definition of leaf in English:

leaf

nounPlural leaves liːflif

1A flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and blade-like, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of photosynthesis and transpiration.
叶，叶子
many of the trees had lost their leaves
bay leaves
an oak leaf
Example sentencesExamples
- Roselle is a woody annual, with green leaves on stems which are usually red.
- Both have stems, leaves, and reproductive structures, but they look very different.
- The egg-sacs are deposited in twisted leaves or may be directly attached to a leaf.
- Individual plant shoots from each category were separated into stem, leaves, and crown.
- Then the other way is called transpiration, or water lost primarily from the leaves and stems of the plants.
- But coca is a very resilient plant, and fresh green leaves are already sprouting from stalks fumigated a few months ago.
- It has three curved green leaves on each stem, with a large purple blossom in the middle.
- Only the tender green leaves growing off the stems are really palatable, so this type of cress requires a bit of prep work.
- I want to put white lights around their trunks and red lights along the main stem of the leaves.
- About two hours later, the yard had almost become a pond, with the green leaves of the plants shining in the rain.
- The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition.
- Plants were analysed by measuring the excised leaves of the main shoot.
- This also gives the best possible area exposed to falling rain so the rain is directed back along the leaf and down the stem to the roots.
- Shoots of M. micrantha were separated into stems, leaves, and reproductive organs.
- Plants were dissected into leaves, stems with petioles, and inflorescences.
- It makes a decorative house or garden plant with long green leaves and a spectacular flower.
- The female Thrypticus deposits an egg in a water-hyacinth petiole - the stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem.
- First check the field for the presence or absence of spider mites on individual green leaves on a corn plant.
- There were plants with long green leaves in every corner and the curtains were of gold silk.
- There is no green, but leaves of the plants around that area are yellow.
Synonyms
frond
1. 1.1 Any of a number of plant structures similar to leaves, e.g. bracts, sepals, and petals.
  叶状物（如苞片，萼片，花瓣）
  Synonyms
  frond
2. 1.2mass noun Foliage regarded collectively.
  总称叶
  Example sentencesExamples
  Providing you prepare the soil well, and top dress every year with more compost, you can plant climbers quite densely, two or three feet apart, for a wealth of leaf, colour and scent.
  To provide a backdrop to this foliage-ruled leafscape, use climbers to link together canopies of leaf.
  She kept her eyes straight ahead as she flew over the rest of the clearing and then into a dense forest, her bare feet racing and leaping over stone and leaf.
3. 1.3mass noun The state of having leaves.
  长叶，有叶
  the trees are still in leaf
  树现在还长着叶。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This, I notice, has come into leaf which could be an indication that roots have formed.
  It could be that the oak tree will be a clue when it's in leaf.
  Trees on the opposite bank were bursting into leaf, although the sun was defiantly not shining.
  The oak tree is being more cautious, of course, and will wait a while yet before venturing into leaf.
  Lilies are better planted in the autumn as they come into leaf very early in the spring.
  For all that it is still March, only a couple of days past the solstice, and few trees are yet in leaf, today could have been a summer's day.
  Lift, divide and spread out winter aconites while still in leaf.
  It is one of the first trees in the arboretum to come into leaf and flowers prolifically with large creamy/pink blossoms in spring.
  It is early spring, since the trees are just coming into leaf, and the low grass is still yellowish.
  Normally elder would come into leaf in late February or March, and into blossom in late April or May.
  It's a wonderful tree, the only drawback being that it comes into leaf long after most other garden plants, in late spring to early summer.
  They enjoy a well-drained soil and will stay in leaf until about May, when they die down and lie dormant until the following autumn.
  And our interest does not stop when the saplings go into leaf.
  Outside now that the trees planted last year have started coming into leaf the area is taking on a plaza look.
  Lift bedded out begonias while still in leaf; put them in boxes in a dry shed or greenhouse to dry out and die back gradually.
  In fact every tree and shrub in the garden is in bud at least, and some are coming into leaf.
  Many said they believe that it's unnecessary to drastically prune trees in the summer just as they come into leaf.
  Groups of bulbs such as daffodils that have become overcrowded and have stopped flowering can be dug up and split whilst in leaf.
  He wanted to see the trees in his garden coming into leaf.
  The bare branches of deciduous trees don't muffle noises like they do when they're in leaf.
4. 1.4mass noun The leaves of tobacco or tea.
  烟叶，茶叶
  as modifier leaf tea
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although they both carry the taste of the ornage bitterness of the Bergamot, the tea from the whole leaf brew holds on to the tongue far longer.
  Was there actual evidence from your client that the tobacco leaf was cut in order to enable it to fit into bags for easy transportation?
  In other words, tobacco used to be a herbal medicine but public experimentation led to the smoking of the tobacco leaf.
  They are whole leaf, natural teas.
  Our tea sales have continued to grow, even our loose leaf tea.
  Indeed, so smitten is she by alternative therapies that there were reports during the summer of a mercy dash across the country so that she did not have to go without her strawberry leaf tea.
  Without playing the ‘Elitist Snob’ card too severely, let me just say this: Buy loose leaf tea.
  It is topped off with clove scented apple jelly together with steaming cups of leaf tea brewed from the kettle ever boiling on the hob.
  I took the raspberry leaf tea with milk from Neville's nanny, but no sugar as it made me restless.
  The price of tobacco was high, the purchaser getting enough leaf to balance the silver coins placed on the other pan of the scales.
  This type of smokeless tobacco comes in loose leaf, plugs or twists.
  Bill, who spends the rest of the year running a herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle at Trefawr Farm, Llanfyrnach, confided that loose leaf tea was the secret of a good cuppa.
  So I got some tobacco leaf, mixed it with water and gave it to the baby.
  The tiny tobacconist shop was dark and reeked pleasantly of exotic leaf.
  Eighty rupees a kilo for long leaf tea was an unquestionable bargain.
  They look like a giant teabag with the leaves missing: a mass of stretchy, white tissue with thousands of perforations.
  The houseboy brings in raspberry leaf tea, and we talk about everything from sex to finances to communication.
  But if you have a place in your town that sells loose leaf teas, you really need to head down that path.
  Tobacco, or some stronger leaf, smoulders in the ashtray.
  Richard and Liz say customers comment on the excellent waitress service, quality menu items, and traditional touches such as leaf tea served with a teapot and strainer.
2A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin.
Example sentencesExamples
- Flat, thin leaves of horn were translucent and used for windowpanes in place of glass.
1. 2.1 A single thickness of paper, especially in a book with each side forming a page.
  书页，纸页
  Example sentencesExamples
  It prints off a leaf of paper and spits it at the man in the lab coat.
  With stifled sobs, she unfolded the single leaf of paper from within and began to read the rigid, soldier-like writing.
  Against a delicate leaf of paper, the sound of a rapidograph is as raw as the line it produces.
  He went over to her and took the book from her hand; still keeping the page he then marked the page with a small leaf of paper.
  It works like a book whose leaves have remained uncut - you press down in the middle and the pages come to lie besides each other.
  ‘That is an incredible price and it is about 10 times more than any Beethoven sketch leaf has ever gone for,’ he said.
  She pulled it out of her book case and turned the leaves to the page around October of that year.
  They wrote down all their ideas on a fresh leaf of white lined paper and soon filled up both sides of it.
  Thus, at an etymological level, leaves and paper, and leaves and books are deeply connected.
  A single leaf surviving in manuscript used to be thought to be a forgery, but is now considered a genuine contemporary copy of part of one scene.
  Anne replied on another leaf: ‘By daily proof you shall me find / To be to you both loving and kind.’
  A leaf of paper tumbled out, folded into a tight square.
  I took out the loose leaf of paper that had my Kitten drawing on it.
  So that he's working on the second gathering, the second four pages, the second leaf, while they are already preparing the parts for the incomplete cantata.
  There stood my ‘sister’, and a small box containing a single leaf of paper.
  Synonyms
  page, sheet, folio, flyleaf
2. 2.2mass noun, with modifier Gold, silver, or other specified metal in the form of very thin foil.
  金属薄片（如金箔及银箔等）
  gold leaf
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sometimes metallic coatings are applied, e.g. in the form of leaf silver.
  The delicate delineations of each square of metal leaf create subtle patterns.
  In the early 1970s very thin leaf gold was skillfully implanted on rhodochrosite to make spectacular faked specimens.
  Gold leaf has been applied to the clock's numerals.
  On top of this sheet, smooth down a sheet of metal leaf.
  Gold leaf used in gilding is made in much the same way.
  Gold leaf is carefully rubbed onto the lightly glued surface around the tempera and the entire object is then varnished with a gloss finish.
  Within the cradle of the metal leaf covering was an array of multi-colored lights, each panel serving a different purpose.
  Gold leaf was then used to enrich the surfaces of paintings, sculptures, buildings, pottery and manuscripts.
  The stacks were then hammered until the gold had spread sufficiently to make a thin foil or leaf.
  Tiny bits of metal leaf come together like a textured, variegated sheet on craft projects.
  Aziz didn't need to ask to know that the gold was not leaf, but real gold, most likely twenty-four karats.
  To transfer the leaf to the adhesive, use the sheets of tissue that come with the metal leaf, or use waxed paper pieces.
  Malleable, silver may be beaten into a leaf 0.00025 millimeters thin.
  He recently began to put gold and silver metal leaf under the paint, and he uses a hand-rubbing technique to create a soft, antiqued look.
  Knapp decorated the sliding hatch in the dining room with gold, silver, and copper leaf on enamel, replacing an earlier plain copper sheet.
  Gold leaf frames are also a standard for the company.
  Twelve pence worth of leaf gold was an expensive amount.
  Gold leaf was applied to the background and his tunic, and perhaps the wreath in his hair, after the panel was placed on the mummy.
3. 2.3 The hinged part or flap of a door, shutter, or table.
  （窗，门等）扇
  Example sentencesExamples
  A large solitary crane takes off to the left, subtly guiding the eye towards the missing leaf of the double door or shutter where the seascape doubtless continued.
  Place the hinge leaf in the mortise and position the self-centering tool in the countersink recesses of the hinge.
  Take the old hinge screw or the hinge leaf with you to the store to make sure the new screw is the right size for your hinge.
  You could have a table that folds down from the wall or even a table with leaves, and throw a dinner party for four in the space the bed would be taking up.
4. 2.4 An extra section inserted to extend a table.
  桌子的活动面板
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are a little like the leaves of a dining table that can be used to make it longer.
  Clear the writing items off the desk, take out the leaf in the table, hide the telephone and get rid of the porcelain figurines!
5. 2.5 The inner or outer part of a cavity wall or double-glazed window.
  空心墙（或双层窗）的内面（或外面）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Remove the outer brick leaf to damp proof course level and rebuild the walling, ensuring the wall ties are inserted in the correct positions.
  In consequence, the tiling could not be nailed at every course and relied solely on the mortar bedding to the outer leaf of brickwork.

verb liːflif

[no object]

1(of a plant, especially a deciduous one in spring) put out new leaves.
（植物，尤指落叶植物在春季）生新叶，长新叶
many plants need a period of dormancy before they leaf and flower
Example sentencesExamples
- The dates of observation were 17-19 May 1998, during which the weather was dry with average spring temperatures and the tree canopy had not leafed out.
- You can transplant existing shrubs and perennial plants before they begin to leaf out.
- You can transplant in the spring up until the plants leaf out.
- Ash trees were leafing up, the hedges were thick.
- But if you prune back hard or after the tree leafs out in spring, it may be slower to come into bloom that year.
- The eggs were not laid until the last week of April, as the weather warmed up, serviceberry bloomed, and maples, poplars, birches, and beeches were leafing out.
- Most trees are leafing out already; some have made significant progress.
- Each plant emerges from an underground rhizome in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out.
- Once it leafs out it is a wonderful privacy screen.
- There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait.
- The ancient olive trees, budding once more and leafing, feel a bit foolish; how much more absurd is the staff of legends that, stuck in the ground, blossoms.
Synonyms
put out leaves, bud, burst into leaves
rare foliate
2leaf throughTurn over (the pages of a book or the papers in a pile), reading them quickly or casually.
翻阅（书页，纸张）
he leafed through the stack of notes
他翻阅那叠记录。
Example sentencesExamples
- And, besides, it seems to impress the most attractive men on train journeys when you leaf through the pages of such highbrow reading matter and display interest in more than just the pictures.
- He was leafing through folders of paper, taking notes on a large yellow pad.
- How about having a cup of freshly brewed coffee while leafing through pages of an interesting book?
- I leafed through the stack in my hand.
- You can turn the pages as though leafing through the book.
- Stretched out next to the sofa was Julie, leafing lazily through a magazine.
- Picking one at random, he leafed idly through it as he let his mind work.
- As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting.
- He leafed through a stack of letters, splitting them into bills and correspondence.
- I let him leaf through the first few pages before I spoke up again.
- So I did what Pa asked, and leafed through the book, its pages heavy and dusty, well-inscribed and made to last for centuries.
- "All right then, " said the magistrate, leafing through some papers.
- I reached for a poetry book and sat quietly for a while, leafing through the pages.
- Next to that is another device - a page turner that automatically leafs through any book placed on a raised platform, operated at the touch of a button.
- I noticed that he was leafing through some folders on his desk, and I was struck by a question.
- I sat on the cot and leafed through a magazine, shivering silently.
- Either study abroad or leaf through the books of some great photographers in the world.
- I've only leafed through a copy, and read the first chapter.
- He approached it on tip toes, leafing through a pile of papers on the surface.
- But anyway, she pulled out my folder and began leafing through the papers inside.
Synonyms
flick, flip, thumb, skim, browse, glance, look, riffle
read, scan, dip into, run one's eye over, have a look at, peruse

Phrases

shake (or tremble) like a leaf

(of a person) tremble greatly, especially from fear.
（人）（尤指因恐惧）发抖
Example sentencesExamples
- Looking at her, she seemed to know exactly what he was talking about as soon as she caught sight of Scarlett, who was trembling like a leaf by now at having so many people looking at her.
- ‘I mean, I was shaking like a leaf,’ she confesses.
- I was shaking like a leaf, and she told me to ring the police.
- Absolutely terrified and trembling like a leaf, I sat down and played for him.
- She breathes heavily and, although trembling like a leaf from the shock, she succeeds in untying herself.
- Just thinking about it makes me shake like a leaf.
- I was shaking like a leaf on the first tee, as nervous standing over the ball as I had ever been in my life.
- I was really shaking like a leaf when we first showed it.
- He opened the cellar door and slipped inside in a whisper, shut the door and locked it, and stood there trembling like a leaf.
- Roger was the last to cross and his knees shook like a leaf.

Derivatives

leafage

noun ˈliːfɪdʒˈlifɪdʒ

The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.
Example sentencesExamples
- The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate.
- Among them are the carved rosette and floral vines emanating from the crest along the upper stiles, the five curved slats with leafage and fish-scale carving, and the pendant rosettes on the front legs.
- Here and there, a sweet chestnut still in full summer leafage dotted the grassland, and a couple of miles away, a stand of willow marked the line of Possum Creek where it twisted and turned, dipping at last into light woodland.
- Diseased leaves should be removed and burned, if they are not too numerous, but do not cut down the leafage too much as these spots do not permanently injure the plant unless they take complete possession of it.

leafless

adjective ˈliːfləsˈlifləs

The trees were bare and leafless, but the snow made them a sight for sore eyes.
Example sentencesExamples
- In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
- Here, the stark, leafless trees are showing their first spring life, thrusting forth buds of triumphant red.
- It was perhaps a natural thought that the approach of winter should drive the shivering, hungry ghosts just like the cattle from the bare fields and leafless woods into the warm cottages.
- There are tables and chairs for the notional interiors; the stark silhouettes of leafless trees are picked out against white walls; at one end some wooden frames denote an old, abandoned silver mine.

leaf-like

adjective

Some species of green algae - the organisms from which plants evolved - were growing half-inch leaf-like sheets 450 million years ago.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's the circular leaf-like shape of the island that gives Antigua its undulating shoreline, within which so many of its famed beaches are nestled.
- For another, they've taken to tarting up their lattes with leaf-like artwork carved into the foam with subtle tricks of the wrist while pouring the drinks.
- More detailed morphological analysis of this extreme phenotype showed the conversion of stamens into very small leaf-like structures.
- These delicate fish are poor swimmers, but use their leaf-like appendages to help them blend into the algae and kelp surrounding them for protection from predators.

Origin

Old English lēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch loof and German Laub.

Rhymes

aperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, fief, grief, interleaf, Leif, lief, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief

Definition of leaf in US English:

leaf

nounlēflif

1A flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and blade-like, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of photosynthesis and transpiration.
叶，叶子
Compare with compound leaf, leaflet
Example sentencesExamples
- Individual plant shoots from each category were separated into stem, leaves, and crown.
- Then the other way is called transpiration, or water lost primarily from the leaves and stems of the plants.
- I want to put white lights around their trunks and red lights along the main stem of the leaves.
- The female Thrypticus deposits an egg in a water-hyacinth petiole - the stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem.
- It makes a decorative house or garden plant with long green leaves and a spectacular flower.
- Shoots of M. micrantha were separated into stems, leaves, and reproductive organs.
- The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition.
- About two hours later, the yard had almost become a pond, with the green leaves of the plants shining in the rain.
- There were plants with long green leaves in every corner and the curtains were of gold silk.
- Both have stems, leaves, and reproductive structures, but they look very different.
- First check the field for the presence or absence of spider mites on individual green leaves on a corn plant.
- This also gives the best possible area exposed to falling rain so the rain is directed back along the leaf and down the stem to the roots.
- Plants were dissected into leaves, stems with petioles, and inflorescences.
- Roselle is a woody annual, with green leaves on stems which are usually red.
- It has three curved green leaves on each stem, with a large purple blossom in the middle.
- Only the tender green leaves growing off the stems are really palatable, so this type of cress requires a bit of prep work.
- But coca is a very resilient plant, and fresh green leaves are already sprouting from stalks fumigated a few months ago.
- There is no green, but leaves of the plants around that area are yellow.
- Plants were analysed by measuring the excised leaves of the main shoot.
- The egg-sacs are deposited in twisted leaves or may be directly attached to a leaf.
Synonyms
frond
1. 1.1 Any of a number of plant structures similar to leaves, e.g. bracts, sepals, and petals.
  叶状物（如苞片，萼片，花瓣）
  Synonyms
  frond
2. 1.2 Foliage regarded collectively.
  总称叶
  Example sentencesExamples
  Providing you prepare the soil well, and top dress every year with more compost, you can plant climbers quite densely, two or three feet apart, for a wealth of leaf, colour and scent.
  To provide a backdrop to this foliage-ruled leafscape, use climbers to link together canopies of leaf.
  She kept her eyes straight ahead as she flew over the rest of the clearing and then into a dense forest, her bare feet racing and leaping over stone and leaf.
3. 1.3 The state of having leaves.
  长叶，有叶
  the trees are still in leaf
  树现在还长着叶。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He wanted to see the trees in his garden coming into leaf.
  Groups of bulbs such as daffodils that have become overcrowded and have stopped flowering can be dug up and split whilst in leaf.
  In fact every tree and shrub in the garden is in bud at least, and some are coming into leaf.
  It's a wonderful tree, the only drawback being that it comes into leaf long after most other garden plants, in late spring to early summer.
  Lilies are better planted in the autumn as they come into leaf very early in the spring.
  Many said they believe that it's unnecessary to drastically prune trees in the summer just as they come into leaf.
  Normally elder would come into leaf in late February or March, and into blossom in late April or May.
  And our interest does not stop when the saplings go into leaf.
  It could be that the oak tree will be a clue when it's in leaf.
  Trees on the opposite bank were bursting into leaf, although the sun was defiantly not shining.
  It is one of the first trees in the arboretum to come into leaf and flowers prolifically with large creamy/pink blossoms in spring.
  The oak tree is being more cautious, of course, and will wait a while yet before venturing into leaf.
  The bare branches of deciduous trees don't muffle noises like they do when they're in leaf.
  Lift, divide and spread out winter aconites while still in leaf.
  For all that it is still March, only a couple of days past the solstice, and few trees are yet in leaf, today could have been a summer's day.
  They enjoy a well-drained soil and will stay in leaf until about May, when they die down and lie dormant until the following autumn.
  It is early spring, since the trees are just coming into leaf, and the low grass is still yellowish.
  Outside now that the trees planted last year have started coming into leaf the area is taking on a plaza look.
  Lift bedded out begonias while still in leaf; put them in boxes in a dry shed or greenhouse to dry out and die back gradually.
  This, I notice, has come into leaf which could be an indication that roots have formed.
4. 1.4 The leaves of tobacco or tea.
  烟叶，茶叶
  as modifier leaf tea
  Example sentencesExamples
  Indeed, so smitten is she by alternative therapies that there were reports during the summer of a mercy dash across the country so that she did not have to go without her strawberry leaf tea.
  But if you have a place in your town that sells loose leaf teas, you really need to head down that path.
  So I got some tobacco leaf, mixed it with water and gave it to the baby.
  The houseboy brings in raspberry leaf tea, and we talk about everything from sex to finances to communication.
  I took the raspberry leaf tea with milk from Neville's nanny, but no sugar as it made me restless.
  Richard and Liz say customers comment on the excellent waitress service, quality menu items, and traditional touches such as leaf tea served with a teapot and strainer.
  They look like a giant teabag with the leaves missing: a mass of stretchy, white tissue with thousands of perforations.
  Tobacco, or some stronger leaf, smoulders in the ashtray.
  Although they both carry the taste of the ornage bitterness of the Bergamot, the tea from the whole leaf brew holds on to the tongue far longer.
  It is topped off with clove scented apple jelly together with steaming cups of leaf tea brewed from the kettle ever boiling on the hob.
  Without playing the ‘Elitist Snob’ card too severely, let me just say this: Buy loose leaf tea.
  Bill, who spends the rest of the year running a herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle at Trefawr Farm, Llanfyrnach, confided that loose leaf tea was the secret of a good cuppa.
  Our tea sales have continued to grow, even our loose leaf tea.
  The price of tobacco was high, the purchaser getting enough leaf to balance the silver coins placed on the other pan of the scales.
  They are whole leaf, natural teas.
  This type of smokeless tobacco comes in loose leaf, plugs or twists.
  In other words, tobacco used to be a herbal medicine but public experimentation led to the smoking of the tobacco leaf.
  The tiny tobacconist shop was dark and reeked pleasantly of exotic leaf.
  Was there actual evidence from your client that the tobacco leaf was cut in order to enable it to fit into bags for easy transportation?
  Eighty rupees a kilo for long leaf tea was an unquestionable bargain.
2A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin, typically something that is one of two or more similar items forming a set or stack.
（似叶子般平而薄的）薄片（尤指两张或一套、一叠此种薄片中的一张）
Example sentencesExamples
- Flat, thin leaves of horn were translucent and used for windowpanes in place of glass.
1. 2.1 A single thickness of paper, especially in a book with each side forming a page.
  书页，纸页
  Example sentencesExamples
  A single leaf surviving in manuscript used to be thought to be a forgery, but is now considered a genuine contemporary copy of part of one scene.
  Against a delicate leaf of paper, the sound of a rapidograph is as raw as the line it produces.
  It works like a book whose leaves have remained uncut - you press down in the middle and the pages come to lie besides each other.
  He went over to her and took the book from her hand; still keeping the page he then marked the page with a small leaf of paper.
  ‘That is an incredible price and it is about 10 times more than any Beethoven sketch leaf has ever gone for,’ he said.
  Anne replied on another leaf: ‘By daily proof you shall me find / To be to you both loving and kind.’
  With stifled sobs, she unfolded the single leaf of paper from within and began to read the rigid, soldier-like writing.
  I took out the loose leaf of paper that had my Kitten drawing on it.
  She pulled it out of her book case and turned the leaves to the page around October of that year.
  Thus, at an etymological level, leaves and paper, and leaves and books are deeply connected.
  So that he's working on the second gathering, the second four pages, the second leaf, while they are already preparing the parts for the incomplete cantata.
  It prints off a leaf of paper and spits it at the man in the lab coat.
  They wrote down all their ideas on a fresh leaf of white lined paper and soon filled up both sides of it.
  A leaf of paper tumbled out, folded into a tight square.
  There stood my ‘sister’, and a small box containing a single leaf of paper.
  Synonyms
  page, sheet, folio, flyleaf
2. 2.2with modifier Gold, silver, or other specified metal in the form of very thin foil.
  金属薄片（如金箔及银箔等）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The delicate delineations of each square of metal leaf create subtle patterns.
  Within the cradle of the metal leaf covering was an array of multi-colored lights, each panel serving a different purpose.
  Gold leaf has been applied to the clock's numerals.
  Gold leaf was applied to the background and his tunic, and perhaps the wreath in his hair, after the panel was placed on the mummy.
  In the early 1970s very thin leaf gold was skillfully implanted on rhodochrosite to make spectacular faked specimens.
  Gold leaf used in gilding is made in much the same way.
  Twelve pence worth of leaf gold was an expensive amount.
  Malleable, silver may be beaten into a leaf 0.00025 millimeters thin.
  To transfer the leaf to the adhesive, use the sheets of tissue that come with the metal leaf, or use waxed paper pieces.
  Tiny bits of metal leaf come together like a textured, variegated sheet on craft projects.
  On top of this sheet, smooth down a sheet of metal leaf.
  Gold leaf is carefully rubbed onto the lightly glued surface around the tempera and the entire object is then varnished with a gloss finish.
  Sometimes metallic coatings are applied, e.g. in the form of leaf silver.
  Gold leaf was then used to enrich the surfaces of paintings, sculptures, buildings, pottery and manuscripts.
  He recently began to put gold and silver metal leaf under the paint, and he uses a hand-rubbing technique to create a soft, antiqued look.
  Gold leaf frames are also a standard for the company.
  Aziz didn't need to ask to know that the gold was not leaf, but real gold, most likely twenty-four karats.
  The stacks were then hammered until the gold had spread sufficiently to make a thin foil or leaf.
  Knapp decorated the sliding hatch in the dining room with gold, silver, and copper leaf on enamel, replacing an earlier plain copper sheet.
3. 2.3 The hinged part or flap of a door, shutter, or table.
  （窗，门等）扇
  Example sentencesExamples
  A large solitary crane takes off to the left, subtly guiding the eye towards the missing leaf of the double door or shutter where the seascape doubtless continued.
  Place the hinge leaf in the mortise and position the self-centering tool in the countersink recesses of the hinge.
  You could have a table that folds down from the wall or even a table with leaves, and throw a dinner party for four in the space the bed would be taking up.
  Take the old hinge screw or the hinge leaf with you to the store to make sure the new screw is the right size for your hinge.
4. 2.4 An extra section inserted to extend a table.
  桌子的活动面板
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are a little like the leaves of a dining table that can be used to make it longer.
  Clear the writing items off the desk, take out the leaf in the table, hide the telephone and get rid of the porcelain figurines!
5. 2.5 The inner or outer part of a cavity wall or double-glazed window.
  空心墙（或双层窗）的内面（或外面）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Remove the outer brick leaf to damp proof course level and rebuild the walling, ensuring the wall ties are inserted in the correct positions.
  In consequence, the tiling could not be nailed at every course and relied solely on the mortar bedding to the outer leaf of brickwork.
6. 2.6 Any of the stacked metal strips that form a leaf spring.

verblēflif

[no object]

1(of a plant, especially a deciduous one in spring) put out new leaves.
（植物，尤指落叶植物在春季）生新叶，长新叶
Example sentencesExamples
- You can transplant existing shrubs and perennial plants before they begin to leaf out.
- The ancient olive trees, budding once more and leafing, feel a bit foolish; how much more absurd is the staff of legends that, stuck in the ground, blossoms.
- Each plant emerges from an underground rhizome in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out.
- There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait.
- Most trees are leafing out already; some have made significant progress.
- The dates of observation were 17-19 May 1998, during which the weather was dry with average spring temperatures and the tree canopy had not leafed out.
- But if you prune back hard or after the tree leafs out in spring, it may be slower to come into bloom that year.
- The eggs were not laid until the last week of April, as the weather warmed up, serviceberry bloomed, and maples, poplars, birches, and beeches were leafing out.
- Once it leafs out it is a wonderful privacy screen.
- Ash trees were leafing up, the hedges were thick.
- You can transplant in the spring up until the plants leaf out.
Synonyms
put out leaves, bud, burst into leaves
2leaf throughTurn over (the pages of a book or the papers in a pile), reading them quickly or casually.
翻阅（书页，纸张）
he leafed through the stack of notes
他翻阅那叠记录。
Example sentencesExamples
- Picking one at random, he leafed idly through it as he let his mind work.
- But anyway, she pulled out my folder and began leafing through the papers inside.
- I leafed through the stack in my hand.
- You can turn the pages as though leafing through the book.
- He was leafing through folders of paper, taking notes on a large yellow pad.
- I've only leafed through a copy, and read the first chapter.
- He approached it on tip toes, leafing through a pile of papers on the surface.
- I let him leaf through the first few pages before I spoke up again.
- How about having a cup of freshly brewed coffee while leafing through pages of an interesting book?
- "All right then, " said the magistrate, leafing through some papers.
- I reached for a poetry book and sat quietly for a while, leafing through the pages.
- Either study abroad or leaf through the books of some great photographers in the world.
- Next to that is another device - a page turner that automatically leafs through any book placed on a raised platform, operated at the touch of a button.
- I noticed that he was leafing through some folders on his desk, and I was struck by a question.
- He leafed through a stack of letters, splitting them into bills and correspondence.
- Stretched out next to the sofa was Julie, leafing lazily through a magazine.
- And, besides, it seems to impress the most attractive men on train journeys when you leaf through the pages of such highbrow reading matter and display interest in more than just the pictures.
- So I did what Pa asked, and leafed through the book, its pages heavy and dusty, well-inscribed and made to last for centuries.
- As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting.
- I sat on the cot and leafed through a magazine, shivering silently.
Synonyms
flick, flip, thumb, skim, browse, glance, look, riffle

Phrases

shake (or tremble) like a leaf

(of a person) tremble greatly, especially from fear.
（人）（尤指因恐惧）发抖
Example sentencesExamples
- He opened the cellar door and slipped inside in a whisper, shut the door and locked it, and stood there trembling like a leaf.
- ‘I mean, I was shaking like a leaf,’ she confesses.
- I was shaking like a leaf, and she told me to ring the police.
- Absolutely terrified and trembling like a leaf, I sat down and played for him.
- She breathes heavily and, although trembling like a leaf from the shock, she succeeds in untying herself.
- I was really shaking like a leaf when we first showed it.
- Just thinking about it makes me shake like a leaf.
- Roger was the last to cross and his knees shook like a leaf.
- I was shaking like a leaf on the first tee, as nervous standing over the ball as I had ever been in my life.
- Looking at her, she seemed to know exactly what he was talking about as soon as she caught sight of Scarlett, who was trembling like a leaf by now at having so many people looking at her.

Origin

Old English lēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch loof and German Laub.

词汇	leaf
释义	Definition of leaf in English: leaf nounPlural leaves liːflif 1A flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and blade-like, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of photosynthesis and transpiration. 叶，叶子 many of the trees had lost their leaves bay leaves an oak leaf Example sentencesExamples Roselle is a woody annual, with green leaves on stems which are usually red. Both have stems, leaves, and reproductive structures, but they look very different. The egg-sacs are deposited in twisted leaves or may be directly attached to a leaf. Individual plant shoots from each category were separated into stem, leaves, and crown. Then the other way is called transpiration, or water lost primarily from the leaves and stems of the plants. But coca is a very resilient plant, and fresh green leaves are already sprouting from stalks fumigated a few months ago. It has three curved green leaves on each stem, with a large purple blossom in the middle. Only the tender green leaves growing off the stems are really palatable, so this type of cress requires a bit of prep work. I want to put white lights around their trunks and red lights along the main stem of the leaves. About two hours later, the yard had almost become a pond, with the green leaves of the plants shining in the rain. The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition. Plants were analysed by measuring the excised leaves of the main shoot. This also gives the best possible area exposed to falling rain so the rain is directed back along the leaf and down the stem to the roots. Shoots of M. micrantha were separated into stems, leaves, and reproductive organs. Plants were dissected into leaves, stems with petioles, and inflorescences. It makes a decorative house or garden plant with long green leaves and a spectacular flower. The female Thrypticus deposits an egg in a water-hyacinth petiole - the stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem. First check the field for the presence or absence of spider mites on individual green leaves on a corn plant. There were plants with long green leaves in every corner and the curtains were of gold silk. There is no green, but leaves of the plants around that area are yellow. Synonyms frond 1.1 Any of a number of plant structures similar to leaves, e.g. bracts, sepals, and petals. 叶状物（如苞片，萼片，花瓣） Synonyms frond 1.2mass noun Foliage regarded collectively. 总称叶 Example sentencesExamples Providing you prepare the soil well, and top dress every year with more compost, you can plant climbers quite densely, two or three feet apart, for a wealth of leaf, colour and scent. To provide a backdrop to this foliage-ruled leafscape, use climbers to link together canopies of leaf. She kept her eyes straight ahead as she flew over the rest of the clearing and then into a dense forest, her bare feet racing and leaping over stone and leaf. 1.3mass noun The state of having leaves. 长叶，有叶 the trees are still in leaf 树现在还长着叶。 Example sentencesExamples This, I notice, has come into leaf which could be an indication that roots have formed. It could be that the oak tree will be a clue when it's in leaf. Trees on the opposite bank were bursting into leaf, although the sun was defiantly not shining. The oak tree is being more cautious, of course, and will wait a while yet before venturing into leaf. Lilies are better planted in the autumn as they come into leaf very early in the spring. For all that it is still March, only a couple of days past the solstice, and few trees are yet in leaf, today could have been a summer's day. Lift, divide and spread out winter aconites while still in leaf. It is one of the first trees in the arboretum to come into leaf and flowers prolifically with large creamy/pink blossoms in spring. It is early spring, since the trees are just coming into leaf, and the low grass is still yellowish. Normally elder would come into leaf in late February or March, and into blossom in late April or May. It's a wonderful tree, the only drawback being that it comes into leaf long after most other garden plants, in late spring to early summer. They enjoy a well-drained soil and will stay in leaf until about May, when they die down and lie dormant until the following autumn. And our interest does not stop when the saplings go into leaf. Outside now that the trees planted last year have started coming into leaf the area is taking on a plaza look. Lift bedded out begonias while still in leaf; put them in boxes in a dry shed or greenhouse to dry out and die back gradually. In fact every tree and shrub in the garden is in bud at least, and some are coming into leaf. Many said they believe that it's unnecessary to drastically prune trees in the summer just as they come into leaf. Groups of bulbs such as daffodils that have become overcrowded and have stopped flowering can be dug up and split whilst in leaf. He wanted to see the trees in his garden coming into leaf. The bare branches of deciduous trees don't muffle noises like they do when they're in leaf. 1.4mass noun The leaves of tobacco or tea. 烟叶，茶叶 as modifier leaf tea Example sentencesExamples Although they both carry the taste of the ornage bitterness of the Bergamot, the tea from the whole leaf brew holds on to the tongue far longer. Was there actual evidence from your client that the tobacco leaf was cut in order to enable it to fit into bags for easy transportation? In other words, tobacco used to be a herbal medicine but public experimentation led to the smoking of the tobacco leaf. They are whole leaf, natural teas. Our tea sales have continued to grow, even our loose leaf tea. Indeed, so smitten is she by alternative therapies that there were reports during the summer of a mercy dash across the country so that she did not have to go without her strawberry leaf tea. Without playing the ‘Elitist Snob’ card too severely, let me just say this: Buy loose leaf tea. It is topped off with clove scented apple jelly together with steaming cups of leaf tea brewed from the kettle ever boiling on the hob. I took the raspberry leaf tea with milk from Neville's nanny, but no sugar as it made me restless. The price of tobacco was high, the purchaser getting enough leaf to balance the silver coins placed on the other pan of the scales. This type of smokeless tobacco comes in loose leaf, plugs or twists. Bill, who spends the rest of the year running a herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle at Trefawr Farm, Llanfyrnach, confided that loose leaf tea was the secret of a good cuppa. So I got some tobacco leaf, mixed it with water and gave it to the baby. The tiny tobacconist shop was dark and reeked pleasantly of exotic leaf. Eighty rupees a kilo for long leaf tea was an unquestionable bargain. They look like a giant teabag with the leaves missing: a mass of stretchy, white tissue with thousands of perforations. The houseboy brings in raspberry leaf tea, and we talk about everything from sex to finances to communication. But if you have a place in your town that sells loose leaf teas, you really need to head down that path. Tobacco, or some stronger leaf, smoulders in the ashtray. Richard and Liz say customers comment on the excellent waitress service, quality menu items, and traditional touches such as leaf tea served with a teapot and strainer. 2A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin. Example sentencesExamples Flat, thin leaves of horn were translucent and used for windowpanes in place of glass. 2.1 A single thickness of paper, especially in a book with each side forming a page. 书页，纸页 Example sentencesExamples It prints off a leaf of paper and spits it at the man in the lab coat. With stifled sobs, she unfolded the single leaf of paper from within and began to read the rigid, soldier-like writing. Against a delicate leaf of paper, the sound of a rapidograph is as raw as the line it produces. He went over to her and took the book from her hand; still keeping the page he then marked the page with a small leaf of paper. It works like a book whose leaves have remained uncut - you press down in the middle and the pages come to lie besides each other. ‘That is an incredible price and it is about 10 times more than any Beethoven sketch leaf has ever gone for,’ he said. She pulled it out of her book case and turned the leaves to the page around October of that year. They wrote down all their ideas on a fresh leaf of white lined paper and soon filled up both sides of it. Thus, at an etymological level, leaves and paper, and leaves and books are deeply connected. A single leaf surviving in manuscript used to be thought to be a forgery, but is now considered a genuine contemporary copy of part of one scene. Anne replied on another leaf: ‘By daily proof you shall me find / To be to you both loving and kind.’ A leaf of paper tumbled out, folded into a tight square. I took out the loose leaf of paper that had my Kitten drawing on it. So that he's working on the second gathering, the second four pages, the second leaf, while they are already preparing the parts for the incomplete cantata. There stood my ‘sister’, and a small box containing a single leaf of paper. Synonyms page, sheet, folio, flyleaf 2.2mass noun, with modifier Gold, silver, or other specified metal in the form of very thin foil. 金属薄片（如金箔及银箔等） gold leaf Example sentencesExamples Sometimes metallic coatings are applied, e.g. in the form of leaf silver. The delicate delineations of each square of metal leaf create subtle patterns. In the early 1970s very thin leaf gold was skillfully implanted on rhodochrosite to make spectacular faked specimens. Gold leaf has been applied to the clock's numerals. On top of this sheet, smooth down a sheet of metal leaf. Gold leaf used in gilding is made in much the same way. Gold leaf is carefully rubbed onto the lightly glued surface around the tempera and the entire object is then varnished with a gloss finish. Within the cradle of the metal leaf covering was an array of multi-colored lights, each panel serving a different purpose. Gold leaf was then used to enrich the surfaces of paintings, sculptures, buildings, pottery and manuscripts. The stacks were then hammered until the gold had spread sufficiently to make a thin foil or leaf. Tiny bits of metal leaf come together like a textured, variegated sheet on craft projects. Aziz didn't need to ask to know that the gold was not leaf, but real gold, most likely twenty-four karats. To transfer the leaf to the adhesive, use the sheets of tissue that come with the metal leaf, or use waxed paper pieces. Malleable, silver may be beaten into a leaf 0.00025 millimeters thin. He recently began to put gold and silver metal leaf under the paint, and he uses a hand-rubbing technique to create a soft, antiqued look. Knapp decorated the sliding hatch in the dining room with gold, silver, and copper leaf on enamel, replacing an earlier plain copper sheet. Gold leaf frames are also a standard for the company. Twelve pence worth of leaf gold was an expensive amount. Gold leaf was applied to the background and his tunic, and perhaps the wreath in his hair, after the panel was placed on the mummy. 2.3 The hinged part or flap of a door, shutter, or table. （窗，门等）扇 Example sentencesExamples A large solitary crane takes off to the left, subtly guiding the eye towards the missing leaf of the double door or shutter where the seascape doubtless continued. Place the hinge leaf in the mortise and position the self-centering tool in the countersink recesses of the hinge. Take the old hinge screw or the hinge leaf with you to the store to make sure the new screw is the right size for your hinge. You could have a table that folds down from the wall or even a table with leaves, and throw a dinner party for four in the space the bed would be taking up. 2.4 An extra section inserted to extend a table. 桌子的活动面板 Example sentencesExamples They are a little like the leaves of a dining table that can be used to make it longer. Clear the writing items off the desk, take out the leaf in the table, hide the telephone and get rid of the porcelain figurines! 2.5 The inner or outer part of a cavity wall or double-glazed window. 空心墙（或双层窗）的内面（或外面） Example sentencesExamples Remove the outer brick leaf to damp proof course level and rebuild the walling, ensuring the wall ties are inserted in the correct positions. In consequence, the tiling could not be nailed at every course and relied solely on the mortar bedding to the outer leaf of brickwork. verb liːflif [no object] 1(of a plant, especially a deciduous one in spring) put out new leaves. （植物，尤指落叶植物在春季）生新叶，长新叶 many plants need a period of dormancy before they leaf and flower Example sentencesExamples The dates of observation were 17-19 May 1998, during which the weather was dry with average spring temperatures and the tree canopy had not leafed out. You can transplant existing shrubs and perennial plants before they begin to leaf out. You can transplant in the spring up until the plants leaf out. Ash trees were leafing up, the hedges were thick. But if you prune back hard or after the tree leafs out in spring, it may be slower to come into bloom that year. The eggs were not laid until the last week of April, as the weather warmed up, serviceberry bloomed, and maples, poplars, birches, and beeches were leafing out. Most trees are leafing out already; some have made significant progress. Each plant emerges from an underground rhizome in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out. Once it leafs out it is a wonderful privacy screen. There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait. The ancient olive trees, budding once more and leafing, feel a bit foolish; how much more absurd is the staff of legends that, stuck in the ground, blossoms. Synonyms put out leaves, bud, burst into leaves rare foliate 2leaf throughTurn over (the pages of a book or the papers in a pile), reading them quickly or casually. 翻阅（书页，纸张） he leafed through the stack of notes 他翻阅那叠记录。 Example sentencesExamples And, besides, it seems to impress the most attractive men on train journeys when you leaf through the pages of such highbrow reading matter and display interest in more than just the pictures. He was leafing through folders of paper, taking notes on a large yellow pad. How about having a cup of freshly brewed coffee while leafing through pages of an interesting book? I leafed through the stack in my hand. You can turn the pages as though leafing through the book. Stretched out next to the sofa was Julie, leafing lazily through a magazine. Picking one at random, he leafed idly through it as he let his mind work. As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting. He leafed through a stack of letters, splitting them into bills and correspondence. I let him leaf through the first few pages before I spoke up again. So I did what Pa asked, and leafed through the book, its pages heavy and dusty, well-inscribed and made to last for centuries. "All right then, " said the magistrate, leafing through some papers. I reached for a poetry book and sat quietly for a while, leafing through the pages. Next to that is another device - a page turner that automatically leafs through any book placed on a raised platform, operated at the touch of a button. I noticed that he was leafing through some folders on his desk, and I was struck by a question. I sat on the cot and leafed through a magazine, shivering silently. Either study abroad or leaf through the books of some great photographers in the world. I've only leafed through a copy, and read the first chapter. He approached it on tip toes, leafing through a pile of papers on the surface. But anyway, she pulled out my folder and began leafing through the papers inside. Synonyms flick, flip, thumb, skim, browse, glance, look, riffle read, scan, dip into, run one's eye over, have a look at, peruse Phrases shake (or tremble) like a leaf (of a person) tremble greatly, especially from fear. （人）（尤指因恐惧）发抖 Example sentencesExamples Looking at her, she seemed to know exactly what he was talking about as soon as she caught sight of Scarlett, who was trembling like a leaf by now at having so many people looking at her. ‘I mean, I was shaking like a leaf,’ she confesses. I was shaking like a leaf, and she told me to ring the police. Absolutely terrified and trembling like a leaf, I sat down and played for him. She breathes heavily and, although trembling like a leaf from the shock, she succeeds in untying herself. Just thinking about it makes me shake like a leaf. I was shaking like a leaf on the first tee, as nervous standing over the ball as I had ever been in my life. I was really shaking like a leaf when we first showed it. He opened the cellar door and slipped inside in a whisper, shut the door and locked it, and stood there trembling like a leaf. Roger was the last to cross and his knees shook like a leaf. Derivatives leafage noun ˈliːfɪdʒˈlifɪdʒ The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality. Example sentencesExamples The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate. Among them are the carved rosette and floral vines emanating from the crest along the upper stiles, the five curved slats with leafage and fish-scale carving, and the pendant rosettes on the front legs. Here and there, a sweet chestnut still in full summer leafage dotted the grassland, and a couple of miles away, a stand of willow marked the line of Possum Creek where it twisted and turned, dipping at last into light woodland. Diseased leaves should be removed and burned, if they are not too numerous, but do not cut down the leafage too much as these spots do not permanently injure the plant unless they take complete possession of it. leafless adjective ˈliːfləsˈlifləs The trees were bare and leafless, but the snow made them a sight for sore eyes. Example sentencesExamples In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation. Here, the stark, leafless trees are showing their first spring life, thrusting forth buds of triumphant red. It was perhaps a natural thought that the approach of winter should drive the shivering, hungry ghosts just like the cattle from the bare fields and leafless woods into the warm cottages. There are tables and chairs for the notional interiors; the stark silhouettes of leafless trees are picked out against white walls; at one end some wooden frames denote an old, abandoned silver mine. leaf-like adjective Some species of green algae - the organisms from which plants evolved - were growing half-inch leaf-like sheets 450 million years ago. Example sentencesExamples It's the circular leaf-like shape of the island that gives Antigua its undulating shoreline, within which so many of its famed beaches are nestled. For another, they've taken to tarting up their lattes with leaf-like artwork carved into the foam with subtle tricks of the wrist while pouring the drinks. More detailed morphological analysis of this extreme phenotype showed the conversion of stamens into very small leaf-like structures. These delicate fish are poor swimmers, but use their leaf-like appendages to help them blend into the algae and kelp surrounding them for protection from predators. Origin Old English lēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch loof and German Laub. Rhymes aperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, fief, grief, interleaf, Leif, lief, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief noun.1 phr. Definition of leaf in US English: leaf nounlēflif 1A flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and blade-like, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of photosynthesis and transpiration. 叶，叶子 Compare with compound leaf, leaflet Example sentencesExamples Individual plant shoots from each category were separated into stem, leaves, and crown. Then the other way is called transpiration, or water lost primarily from the leaves and stems of the plants. I want to put white lights around their trunks and red lights along the main stem of the leaves. The female Thrypticus deposits an egg in a water-hyacinth petiole - the stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem. It makes a decorative house or garden plant with long green leaves and a spectacular flower. Shoots of M. micrantha were separated into stems, leaves, and reproductive organs. The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition. About two hours later, the yard had almost become a pond, with the green leaves of the plants shining in the rain. There were plants with long green leaves in every corner and the curtains were of gold silk. Both have stems, leaves, and reproductive structures, but they look very different. First check the field for the presence or absence of spider mites on individual green leaves on a corn plant. This also gives the best possible area exposed to falling rain so the rain is directed back along the leaf and down the stem to the roots. Plants were dissected into leaves, stems with petioles, and inflorescences. Roselle is a woody annual, with green leaves on stems which are usually red. It has three curved green leaves on each stem, with a large purple blossom in the middle. Only the tender green leaves growing off the stems are really palatable, so this type of cress requires a bit of prep work. But coca is a very resilient plant, and fresh green leaves are already sprouting from stalks fumigated a few months ago. There is no green, but leaves of the plants around that area are yellow. Plants were analysed by measuring the excised leaves of the main shoot. The egg-sacs are deposited in twisted leaves or may be directly attached to a leaf. Synonyms frond 1.1 Any of a number of plant structures similar to leaves, e.g. bracts, sepals, and petals. 叶状物（如苞片，萼片，花瓣） Synonyms frond 1.2 Foliage regarded collectively. 总称叶 Example sentencesExamples Providing you prepare the soil well, and top dress every year with more compost, you can plant climbers quite densely, two or three feet apart, for a wealth of leaf, colour and scent. To provide a backdrop to this foliage-ruled leafscape, use climbers to link together canopies of leaf. She kept her eyes straight ahead as she flew over the rest of the clearing and then into a dense forest, her bare feet racing and leaping over stone and leaf. 1.3 The state of having leaves. 长叶，有叶 the trees are still in leaf 树现在还长着叶。 Example sentencesExamples He wanted to see the trees in his garden coming into leaf. Groups of bulbs such as daffodils that have become overcrowded and have stopped flowering can be dug up and split whilst in leaf. In fact every tree and shrub in the garden is in bud at least, and some are coming into leaf. It's a wonderful tree, the only drawback being that it comes into leaf long after most other garden plants, in late spring to early summer. Lilies are better planted in the autumn as they come into leaf very early in the spring. Many said they believe that it's unnecessary to drastically prune trees in the summer just as they come into leaf. Normally elder would come into leaf in late February or March, and into blossom in late April or May. And our interest does not stop when the saplings go into leaf. It could be that the oak tree will be a clue when it's in leaf. Trees on the opposite bank were bursting into leaf, although the sun was defiantly not shining. It is one of the first trees in the arboretum to come into leaf and flowers prolifically with large creamy/pink blossoms in spring. The oak tree is being more cautious, of course, and will wait a while yet before venturing into leaf. The bare branches of deciduous trees don't muffle noises like they do when they're in leaf. Lift, divide and spread out winter aconites while still in leaf. For all that it is still March, only a couple of days past the solstice, and few trees are yet in leaf, today could have been a summer's day. They enjoy a well-drained soil and will stay in leaf until about May, when they die down and lie dormant until the following autumn. It is early spring, since the trees are just coming into leaf, and the low grass is still yellowish. Outside now that the trees planted last year have started coming into leaf the area is taking on a plaza look. Lift bedded out begonias while still in leaf; put them in boxes in a dry shed or greenhouse to dry out and die back gradually. This, I notice, has come into leaf which could be an indication that roots have formed. 1.4 The leaves of tobacco or tea. 烟叶，茶叶 as modifier leaf tea Example sentencesExamples Indeed, so smitten is she by alternative therapies that there were reports during the summer of a mercy dash across the country so that she did not have to go without her strawberry leaf tea. But if you have a place in your town that sells loose leaf teas, you really need to head down that path. So I got some tobacco leaf, mixed it with water and gave it to the baby. The houseboy brings in raspberry leaf tea, and we talk about everything from sex to finances to communication. I took the raspberry leaf tea with milk from Neville's nanny, but no sugar as it made me restless. Richard and Liz say customers comment on the excellent waitress service, quality menu items, and traditional touches such as leaf tea served with a teapot and strainer. They look like a giant teabag with the leaves missing: a mass of stretchy, white tissue with thousands of perforations. Tobacco, or some stronger leaf, smoulders in the ashtray. Although they both carry the taste of the ornage bitterness of the Bergamot, the tea from the whole leaf brew holds on to the tongue far longer. It is topped off with clove scented apple jelly together with steaming cups of leaf tea brewed from the kettle ever boiling on the hob. Without playing the ‘Elitist Snob’ card too severely, let me just say this: Buy loose leaf tea. Bill, who spends the rest of the year running a herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle at Trefawr Farm, Llanfyrnach, confided that loose leaf tea was the secret of a good cuppa. Our tea sales have continued to grow, even our loose leaf tea. The price of tobacco was high, the purchaser getting enough leaf to balance the silver coins placed on the other pan of the scales. They are whole leaf, natural teas. This type of smokeless tobacco comes in loose leaf, plugs or twists. In other words, tobacco used to be a herbal medicine but public experimentation led to the smoking of the tobacco leaf. The tiny tobacconist shop was dark and reeked pleasantly of exotic leaf. Was there actual evidence from your client that the tobacco leaf was cut in order to enable it to fit into bags for easy transportation? Eighty rupees a kilo for long leaf tea was an unquestionable bargain. 2A thing that resembles a leaf in being flat and thin, typically something that is one of two or more similar items forming a set or stack. （似叶子般平而薄的）薄片（尤指两张或一套、一叠此种薄片中的一张） Example sentencesExamples Flat, thin leaves of horn were translucent and used for windowpanes in place of glass. 2.1 A single thickness of paper, especially in a book with each side forming a page. 书页，纸页 Example sentencesExamples A single leaf surviving in manuscript used to be thought to be a forgery, but is now considered a genuine contemporary copy of part of one scene. Against a delicate leaf of paper, the sound of a rapidograph is as raw as the line it produces. It works like a book whose leaves have remained uncut - you press down in the middle and the pages come to lie besides each other. He went over to her and took the book from her hand; still keeping the page he then marked the page with a small leaf of paper. ‘That is an incredible price and it is about 10 times more than any Beethoven sketch leaf has ever gone for,’ he said. Anne replied on another leaf: ‘By daily proof you shall me find / To be to you both loving and kind.’ With stifled sobs, she unfolded the single leaf of paper from within and began to read the rigid, soldier-like writing. I took out the loose leaf of paper that had my Kitten drawing on it. She pulled it out of her book case and turned the leaves to the page around October of that year. Thus, at an etymological level, leaves and paper, and leaves and books are deeply connected. So that he's working on the second gathering, the second four pages, the second leaf, while they are already preparing the parts for the incomplete cantata. It prints off a leaf of paper and spits it at the man in the lab coat. They wrote down all their ideas on a fresh leaf of white lined paper and soon filled up both sides of it. A leaf of paper tumbled out, folded into a tight square. There stood my ‘sister’, and a small box containing a single leaf of paper. Synonyms page, sheet, folio, flyleaf 2.2with modifier Gold, silver, or other specified metal in the form of very thin foil. 金属薄片（如金箔及银箔等） Example sentencesExamples The delicate delineations of each square of metal leaf create subtle patterns. Within the cradle of the metal leaf covering was an array of multi-colored lights, each panel serving a different purpose. Gold leaf has been applied to the clock's numerals. Gold leaf was applied to the background and his tunic, and perhaps the wreath in his hair, after the panel was placed on the mummy. In the early 1970s very thin leaf gold was skillfully implanted on rhodochrosite to make spectacular faked specimens. Gold leaf used in gilding is made in much the same way. Twelve pence worth of leaf gold was an expensive amount. Malleable, silver may be beaten into a leaf 0.00025 millimeters thin. To transfer the leaf to the adhesive, use the sheets of tissue that come with the metal leaf, or use waxed paper pieces. Tiny bits of metal leaf come together like a textured, variegated sheet on craft projects. On top of this sheet, smooth down a sheet of metal leaf. Gold leaf is carefully rubbed onto the lightly glued surface around the tempera and the entire object is then varnished with a gloss finish. Sometimes metallic coatings are applied, e.g. in the form of leaf silver. Gold leaf was then used to enrich the surfaces of paintings, sculptures, buildings, pottery and manuscripts. He recently began to put gold and silver metal leaf under the paint, and he uses a hand-rubbing technique to create a soft, antiqued look. Gold leaf frames are also a standard for the company. Aziz didn't need to ask to know that the gold was not leaf, but real gold, most likely twenty-four karats. The stacks were then hammered until the gold had spread sufficiently to make a thin foil or leaf. Knapp decorated the sliding hatch in the dining room with gold, silver, and copper leaf on enamel, replacing an earlier plain copper sheet. 2.3 The hinged part or flap of a door, shutter, or table. （窗，门等）扇 Example sentencesExamples A large solitary crane takes off to the left, subtly guiding the eye towards the missing leaf of the double door or shutter where the seascape doubtless continued. Place the hinge leaf in the mortise and position the self-centering tool in the countersink recesses of the hinge. You could have a table that folds down from the wall or even a table with leaves, and throw a dinner party for four in the space the bed would be taking up. Take the old hinge screw or the hinge leaf with you to the store to make sure the new screw is the right size for your hinge. 2.4 An extra section inserted to extend a table. 桌子的活动面板 Example sentencesExamples They are a little like the leaves of a dining table that can be used to make it longer. Clear the writing items off the desk, take out the leaf in the table, hide the telephone and get rid of the porcelain figurines! 2.5 The inner or outer part of a cavity wall or double-glazed window. 空心墙（或双层窗）的内面（或外面） Example sentencesExamples Remove the outer brick leaf to damp proof course level and rebuild the walling, ensuring the wall ties are inserted in the correct positions. In consequence, the tiling could not be nailed at every course and relied solely on the mortar bedding to the outer leaf of brickwork. 2.6 Any of the stacked metal strips that form a leaf spring. verblēflif [no object] 1(of a plant, especially a deciduous one in spring) put out new leaves. （植物，尤指落叶植物在春季）生新叶，长新叶 Example sentencesExamples You can transplant existing shrubs and perennial plants before they begin to leaf out. The ancient olive trees, budding once more and leafing, feel a bit foolish; how much more absurd is the staff of legends that, stuck in the ground, blossoms. Each plant emerges from an underground rhizome in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out. There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait. Most trees are leafing out already; some have made significant progress. The dates of observation were 17-19 May 1998, during which the weather was dry with average spring temperatures and the tree canopy had not leafed out. But if you prune back hard or after the tree leafs out in spring, it may be slower to come into bloom that year. The eggs were not laid until the last week of April, as the weather warmed up, serviceberry bloomed, and maples, poplars, birches, and beeches were leafing out. Once it leafs out it is a wonderful privacy screen. Ash trees were leafing up, the hedges were thick. You can transplant in the spring up until the plants leaf out. Synonyms put out leaves, bud, burst into leaves 2leaf throughTurn over (the pages of a book or the papers in a pile), reading them quickly or casually. 翻阅（书页，纸张） he leafed through the stack of notes 他翻阅那叠记录。 Example sentencesExamples Picking one at random, he leafed idly through it as he let his mind work. But anyway, she pulled out my folder and began leafing through the papers inside. I leafed through the stack in my hand. You can turn the pages as though leafing through the book. He was leafing through folders of paper, taking notes on a large yellow pad. I've only leafed through a copy, and read the first chapter. He approached it on tip toes, leafing through a pile of papers on the surface. I let him leaf through the first few pages before I spoke up again. How about having a cup of freshly brewed coffee while leafing through pages of an interesting book? "All right then, " said the magistrate, leafing through some papers. I reached for a poetry book and sat quietly for a while, leafing through the pages. Either study abroad or leaf through the books of some great photographers in the world. Next to that is another device - a page turner that automatically leafs through any book placed on a raised platform, operated at the touch of a button. I noticed that he was leafing through some folders on his desk, and I was struck by a question. He leafed through a stack of letters, splitting them into bills and correspondence. Stretched out next to the sofa was Julie, leafing lazily through a magazine. And, besides, it seems to impress the most attractive men on train journeys when you leaf through the pages of such highbrow reading matter and display interest in more than just the pictures. So I did what Pa asked, and leafed through the book, its pages heavy and dusty, well-inscribed and made to last for centuries. As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting. I sat on the cot and leafed through a magazine, shivering silently. Synonyms flick, flip, thumb, skim, browse, glance, look, riffle Phrases shake (or tremble) like a leaf (of a person) tremble greatly, especially from fear. （人）（尤指因恐惧）发抖 Example sentencesExamples He opened the cellar door and slipped inside in a whisper, shut the door and locked it, and stood there trembling like a leaf. ‘I mean, I was shaking like a leaf,’ she confesses. I was shaking like a leaf, and she told me to ring the police. Absolutely terrified and trembling like a leaf, I sat down and played for him. She breathes heavily and, although trembling like a leaf from the shock, she succeeds in untying herself. I was really shaking like a leaf when we first showed it. Just thinking about it makes me shake like a leaf. Roger was the last to cross and his knees shook like a leaf. I was shaking like a leaf on the first tee, as nervous standing over the ball as I had ever been in my life. Looking at her, she seemed to know exactly what he was talking about as soon as she caught sight of Scarlett, who was trembling like a leaf by now at having so many people looking at her. Origin Old English lēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch loof and German Laub. noun.1 phr.
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