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waterleaf

waterleaf noun: any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.

waterleaf: any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum
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Noun

waterleaf (plural waterleafs or waterleaves)

  1. Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
  2. Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
  3. A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
    • ‘I like how the onions and waterleaf are slightly raw. They spice the egusi nicely, very nicely.’2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 19
    Synonyms:
    cariru, Ceylon spinach, Florida spinach, Lagos bologi, potherb fameflower, Philippine spinach, Surinam purslane, sweetheart
  4. A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
  5. (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper, somewhat like blotter paper.

waterleaf meaning in Tamil

waterleaf in Tamil

நீரிலை

Synonyms of waterleaf

  • cariru
  • Ceylon spinach
  • Florida spinach
  • Lagos bologi
  • potherb fameflower
  • Philippine spinach
  • Surinam purslane
  • sweetheart

All synonyms of waterleaf

Forms of waterleaf

pluralwaterleafs
pluralwaterleaves
alternative formwater-leaf

Origin of waterleaf

From water + leaf.

Words formed from waterleaf

  • ballhead waterleaf
  • ball-headed waterleaf
  • blunt-leaf waterleaf
  • bluntleaf waterleaf
  • Brown's waterleaf
  • dwarf waterleaf
  • Fendler's waterleaf
  • great waterleaf
  • largeleaf waterleaf
  • Pacific waterleaf
  • Virginia waterleaf
  • waterleaf capital
  • western waterleaf

Questions about waterleaf

What does waterleaf mean?
Waterleaf means any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
What is waterleaf in Tamil?
Waterleaf in Tamil is நீரிலை. See Waterleaf meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is waterleaf?
Waterleaf is a noun.
What is the plural of waterleaf?
The plural of waterleaf is waterleafs.

Words near waterleaf in the dictionary

  1. Waterlander
  2. Waterlanders
  3. Waterlandian
  4. Waterlandians
  5. waterlands
  6. waterleaf
  7. waterleafs
  8. waterleave
  9. waterleaves
  10. Waterlemon Cay
  11. waterless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waterleaf (page history and authors); waterleaf (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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