Meaning: Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice. Classified under: Nouns denoting plants. Synonyms: morello; Prunus cerasus austera. Hypernyms (morello is a kind of...): Prunus cerasus; sour cherry; sour cherry tree (rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit) Meronyms (parts of morello):
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem. The leaves and stem together form the shoot. Leaves are collectively referred to as foliage, as in autumn foliage. Diagram of a simple leaf.
Definition of 'leaf'. leaf (liËf ) The leaves of a tree or plant are the parts that are flat, thin, and usually green. Many trees and plants lose their leaves in the winter and grow new leaves in the spring. In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen. The Japanese maple that stands across the drive had just come into leaf.