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LEAFING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leafing mean? 

LEAFING (noun)
  The noun LEAFING has 1 sense:

1. (botany) the process of forming leavesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LEAFING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(botany) the process of forming leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

foliation; leafing

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

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)


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