Usually means: Photosynthesis organ, typically green, flat.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word leaf:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. leaf: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leaf, leaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leaf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leaf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leaf: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leaf, leaf: Wordnik
  7. leaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Leaf, Leaf: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Leaf, leaf: Wiktionary
  10. leaf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leaf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. leaf: Dictionary.com
  14. leaf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. leaf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. 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
  17. Leaf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. leaf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. leaf: Rhymezone
  20. leaf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. leaf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Leaf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. leaf: Free Dictionary
  24. leaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. leaf: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. 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 (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. 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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