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waterleaves

waterleaves is the plural of waterleaf.

waterleaves is the plural of waterleave.

Meaning of waterleaf

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.

Meaning of waterleave

Noun

waterleave (countable and uncountable, plural waterleaves)

  1. (historical) An easement consisting of the right granted to a miner to use a watercourse for drainage etc.

Questions about waterleaves

What is waterleaves the plural of?
Waterleaves is the plural of waterleaf.

Words near waterleaves in the dictionary

  1. Waterlandians
  2. waterlands
  3. waterleaf
  4. waterleafs
  5. waterleave
  6. waterleaves
  7. Waterlemon Cay
  8. waterless
  9. waterlessly
  10. waterlessness
  11. waterlike

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