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leavesful

leavesful is the plural of leafful.

Meaning of leafful

Noun

leafful (plural leaffuls or leavesful)

  1. The amount or measure held by a leaf.
    • “And here goes too!” cried Abraham; and we both, without hesitating any longer, emptied our bowls to the bottom; and so pure and delicious was the water that we emptied half a dozen leavesful more, and never felt a bit afraid that it would hurt us;[…]1864, J[ohn] Ross Browne, “Ramble into the Interior”, in Crusoe’s Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe., New York, N.Y.: Harper...

Questions about leavesful

What is leavesful the plural of?
Leavesful is the plural of leafful.

Words near leavesful in the dictionary

  1. leaves things be
  2. leaves to chance
  3. leaves to the imagination
  4. leaves well alone
  5. Leavesden
  6. leavesful
  7. leavest
  8. leavetaking
  9. leavetakings
  10. leaveth
  11. leavetime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leavesful (page history and authors); leafful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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