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The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.countableuncountable
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems
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A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.countableuncountable
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Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.countableuncountable
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A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).countableuncountable
- Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.
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A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.countableuncountable
- gold leaf
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One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.countableuncountable
- Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]
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Tea leaves.countablein-pluraluncountable
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A flat section used to extend the size of a table.countableuncountable
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A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.countableuncountable
- The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
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In a tree, a node that has no descendants.countableuncountable
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
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