LEAFAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leafage mean? 

• LEAFAGE (noun)
  The noun LEAFAGE has 1 sense:

1. the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

  Familiarity information: LEAFAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAFAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foliage; leaf; leafage

Hypernyms ("leafage" is a kind of...):

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

Meronyms (parts of "leafage"):

lobe ((botany) a part into which a leaf is divided)

venation ((botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf)

leaf form; leaf shape (any of the various shape that leaves of plants can assume)

Meronyms (substance of "leafage"):

parenchyma (the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leafage"):

simple leaf (a leaf that is not divided into parts)

rosette (a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground))

prickly-edged leaf (a leaf having prickly margins)

parted leaf (a leaf having margins incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes)

parallel-veined leaf (a leaf whose veins run in parallel from the stem)

lobed leaf (a leaf having deeply indented margins)

runcinate leaf (a leaf having incised margins with the lobes or teeth curved toward the base; as a dandelion leaf)

erose leaf (a leaf having a jagged margin as though gnawed)

emarginate leaf (a leaf having a notch at the apex)

dentate leaf (a leaf having a toothed margin)

serrate leaf (a leaf having a margin notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex)

crenate leaf (a leaf having a scalloped margin)

entire leaf (a leaf having a smooth margin without notches or indentations)

compound leaf (a leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk)

cataphyll (a reduced or scarcely developed leaf at the start of a plant's life (i.e., cotyledons) or in the early stages of leaf development)

fig leaf (a leaf from a fig tree)

betel; betel leaf (a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper)

scale; scale leaf (a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin)

pad (the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily))

frond (compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad)

leaflet (part of a compound leaf)

greenery; verdure (green foliage)

amplexicaul leaf (a leaf with its base clasping the stem)

blade; leaf blade (especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole)

sporophyl; sporophyll (leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia)

pitcher ((botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer)

dandelion green (the foliage of the dandelion plant)

floral leaf (a modified leaf that is part of a flower)

Derivation:

leaf (produce leaves, of plants)

 Context examples 

The rotten bark gave way under his feet, and with a despairing yelp he pitched down the rounded crescent, smashed through the leafage and stalks of a small bush, and in the heart of the bush, on the ground, fetched up in the midst of seven ptarmigan chicks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)