Leaf

Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants.

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Famous quotes containing the word leaf:

    “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “frog pond ...
    a leaf falls in
    without a sound”
    —Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)

    ““... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)