leafmeal

Speech parts

1. leafmeal - Noun

2. leafmeal - Adverb

Meaning

leafmeal (not comparable)

(poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.

A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.

Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter

Examples

Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, not spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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