Usually means: Photosynthesis organ, typically green, flat.
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word leaf:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leaf: Merriam-Webster
  3. leaf, leaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leaf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leaf: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leaf: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leaf, leaf: Wordnik
  8. leaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Leaf, Leaf: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Leaf, leaf: Wiktionary
  11. leaf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. leaf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. leaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. leaf: Dictionary.com
  15. leaf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. leaf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. LEAF, Leaf (Dutch band), Leaf (Israeli company), Leaf (Japanese company), Leaf (books), Leaf (company), Leaf (disambiguation), Leaf (payment platform), Leaf (surname), Leaf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Leaf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. leaf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. leaf: Rhymezone
  21. leaf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. leaf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Leaf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. leaf: FreeDictionary.org
  25. leaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. leaf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. leaf: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaf: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Leaf: Dictionary of Symbolism
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leaf: Financial dictionary

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEAF, leaf: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. leaf: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. leaf: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  5. Leaf: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. leaf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaf: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. leaf: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEAF: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. leaf: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leaf: Easton Bible

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaf: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. leaf: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. leaf: Natural History Terms
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaf: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Leaf: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. leaf: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEAF: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See leafed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
noun:  (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
noun:  Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
noun:  (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
noun:  A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
noun:  One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
noun:  (in the plural) Tea leaves.
noun:  A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
noun:  (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
noun:  (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
noun:  The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
noun:  One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
noun:  (4chan, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
verb:  (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
verb:  (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  (Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative) A Canadian person.
noun:  (slang, Canada) A member of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, its organization, or its supporters.
noun:  A model of car built by Nissan, with a name chosen for its green connotations.

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