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.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: leaf (Noun). The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. leaf (Noun). Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.leaf (Noun). A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. gold leaf. leaf (Noun).eaf (noun). something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides.