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folicole (verb), folicoles; folicoled; folicoling: leaf, leaves
Growing, or living, on leaves.
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
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folio-, foli-, folii-
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forbicole (verb), forbicoles; forbicoled; forbicoling: leaf, leaves
Living or existing on broad-leafed plants.
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
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leaves, leaves
leaves (LEEVZ) (verb)
1. To go away from a place or from a person: Marla leaves home to go to work and leaves her husband to take care of the children.
2. To put something in a place for another person to take or to have: The mail carrier leaves the newspaper subscription in box every day except on Sunday.
3. To allow something to remain available or unused: Make sure Charles leaves some room for an additional chair at the table.
2. To put something in a place for another person to take or to have: The mail carrier leaves the newspaper subscription in box every day except on Sunday.
3. To allow something to remain available or unused: Make sure Charles leaves some room for an additional chair at the table.
leaves (LEEVZ) (noun)
1. Flat and typically green parts of plants that grow from stems or twigs: Bonita could hear the rustling of the autumn leaves during the evening.
2. Sheets of paper in books, magazines, and other published documents: There were several leaves in the dictionary that were missing or hadn't been printed.
2. Sheets of paper in books, magazines, and other published documents: There were several leaves in the dictionary that were missing or hadn't been printed.
Howard's neighbor leaves his fallen leaves piling up in his yard without ever raking them up.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group L; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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nervicole (verb), nervicoles; nervicoled; nervicoling: leaf, leaves
Living on or in the veins of leaves.
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-cola, -colas; -cole; -colent; -colid; -coline; -colous
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(Latin: leaf, leaves; a plant's device for intercepting light, obtaining and storing water and nutrients, exchanging gases, and providing a process for photosynthesis)
(Greek: leaf, leaves)
(Latin: book; originally, the "inner bark of a tree", whence "the text written on this", "collection of leaves for writing", and finally "book")
(Greek > Latin: wood sorrel; the leaves of the wood sorrel are acidic to the taste)
(Latin: marked with the palm of the hand; adorned with palm leaves; used primarily in the sense of "having five lobes that diverge from a common center" [as fingers from an open palm])
(Greek > Modern Latin: thymus gland, glands; warty glanular growth resembling a bunch of thyme [aromatic bush leaves])
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A policy that permits workers to have a certain amount of paid time off from their jobs so they can take care of someone with whom they are living: Family leaves are stipulated in many countries around the world so the working adult can be home to provide for family emergencies, the birth or adoption of a child, or taking care of a sick parent or spouse.
Permission to be absent from one's work to care for a member that is usually living with parents and their offspring: The family-care leave is a period when an employee is allowed to care for a family member who is pregnant, ill, disabled, or incapacitated.
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Leaves are the plant's devices for intercepting light, obtaining and storing water and food, exchanging gases, and providing areas for photosynthesis (carbohydrates that are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source).
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Plant Parts or Parts of Plants
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