leafmeal

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adverb

One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.

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Meanings

leafmeal1

adverbleafmeal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletepoeticOne leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.

    Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]

    1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51

leafmeal2

nounleafmeal (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
  2. uncountableFallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter

    The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.

    2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103

Origin

leafmeal · adverb

From leaf + -meal.

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leafmeal · noun

From leaf + meal, modelled after leafmould.

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APA

leafmeal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leafmeal

MLA

“leafmeal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leafmeal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leafmeal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leafmeal.

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