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leafmeal

leafmeal adverb: one leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.

Adverb

leafmeal (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
    • Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC...

Noun

leafmeal (uncountable)

  1. A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
  2. Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
    • The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103

Origin of leafmeal

From leaf + -meal.

From leaf + meal, modelled after leafmould.

Questions about leafmeal

What does leafmeal mean?
Leafmeal means one leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
What part of speech is leafmeal?
Leafmeal can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near leafmeal in the dictionary

  1. leaflitter
  2. leaflove
  3. leafloves
  4. leaflute
  5. leaflutes
  6. leafmeal
  7. leafmine
  8. leafminer
  9. leafminers
  10. leafmines
  11. leafmining

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