leaf
/lif/ sustantivo A1En español: hoja, foja, fronda, coscoja
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. · gold leaf
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- Tea leaves.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
Plural leaves
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.
A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.
Pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, with name of Joseph Stangerson upon the fly-leaf.
On the fly-leaf, in very faded ink, is written ‘Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.’ I wonder who William Whyte was.
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