English Dictionary

leaf

IPA（発音記号）

/liːf/

名詞

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The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. / Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

日本語の意味

植物の主要な器官である「葉」：通常は緑色で平らな部分で、植物の特徴を表す。 / 植物の葉に似たもの、またはそれを模した形状のもの

A single leaf fluttered to the ground, its bright green surface catching the sunlight.

太陽の光を受けて鮮やかな緑色が映る一枚の葉がひらひらと地面に落ちた。

意味（1）

The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

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 around them.

意味（2）

Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

意味（3）

A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

意味（4）

A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

gold leaf

意味（5）

(advertising, dated) Two pages.

Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.

意味（6）

(in the plural) Tea leaves.

意味（7）

A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

意味（8）

(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.

The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.

意味（9）

(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.

意味（10）

(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

意味（11）

The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.

意味（12）

One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

意味（13）

(slang, uncountable) Cannabis.

意味（14）

(Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.

leaves （ plural ）