Leafy

Definition

leaf / li:f / n ( pl leaves / li:vz /) ၁။ [C] သစ္ရြက္။ အရြက္။ ဖက္။ lettuce / cabbage / oak leaves ❍ sweep up the dead leaves. See also FIGLEAF ၂။ [C] စာရြက္။ He carefully turned the leaves of the precious volume. ၃။ [U] အျပား။ အလႊာ။ gold leaf packet. ေရႊဆိုင္း။ ၄။ [C] (ေခါက္ခ်ႏိုင္ေသာ စားပြဲမ်က္ႏွာျပင္) ေတာင္ပံရြက္။ a drop-leaf table. ❏ come into / be in leaf [ IDM ] ရြက္ႏုေဝသည္။ ❏ leafless adj အရြက္မရိွေသာ။ ❏ leaf-mould n [U] သစ္ရြက္ေျမေဆြး။ ❏ leaf through sth [ PHRV ] (စာအုပ္ စသည္) လွန္ေလွာ ၾကည့္႐ႈသည္။ leaf idly through a magazine while waiting. ❏ leafy adj ( -ier, -iest ) (က) အရြက္ေဝဆာေသာ။ a leafy forest, branch, bush. (ခ) သစ္ပင္ ေပါမ်ားေသာ။ a leafy country lane. (ဂ) အရြက္စား (ဟင္းပင္)။ leafy vegetables. (ဃ) ရိပ္သာပင္ လႊမ္းေသာ။ a leafy shade. ❏ take a leaf from / out of sb’s book [ IDM ] အတု ခိုးသည္။

Examples

1. A light breeze stirred the leaves of the tall oak tree outside her window.
2. Falling/autumn leaves
3. [be in leaf] : The trees were already in leaf.
4. [come into leaf] : The hedgerows were just coming into leaf.
5. [leaf of] : A leaf of paper
6. One of the leaves of a book