The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.

synonyms: foliage, leafage.

Roget 204: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess^†; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.    plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive^†, cut, rasher, shaving, integument etc. (covering) 223; eschar^†.    stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.    monolayer; bilayer; trilayer [Bioch.].    ... show more

Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.    plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.    annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.    timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^†, frith^†, holt, weald^†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum etc. 371.    bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^†; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva^†, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria^†, banyan; blow, blowth^†; floret^†, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.    foliage, branch, bough, ramage^†, stem, tigella^†; spray etc. 51; leaf.    flower, blossom, bine^†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.    ... show more

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... show more

Dutch: lover, gebladerte, blaadje, blad
Polish: liścisko

A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book).

synonym: folio.

Roget 593: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^†; tract, tractate^†; livret^†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication; chap book.    part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.    paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.    [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.    folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.    encyclopedia; encompilation^†.    [collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.    press etc. (publication) 531.    [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.    [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker^†, diaskeaust^†, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^†; playwright etc. 599; poet etc. 597.    bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^†; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.    knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning etc. (knowledge) 490.    ... show more

Dutch: blad

Hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door).

Dutch: plaat, blad

Look through a book or other written material:
— She leafed through the volume.

synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb.

Dutch: bladeren

Turn over pages.

Produce leaves, of plants.