It was in the Agora of Athens that the great philosopher Socrates questioned the market-goers on their understanding of the meaning of life, attracting a crowd of Athenian youth who enjoyed seeing the more pretentious of their elders made fools of.
Branching definition, a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant. See more.
leaf noun [ C ] (PLANT) B1 one of the flat, usually green parts of a plant that are joined at one end to the stem or branch: a palm leaf. autumn leaves. He was raking up leaves in his garden. be in leaf/come into leaf. âº When a plant is in leaf or when it comes into leaf, it has or gets leaves on it: The trees are in leaf early this year.