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LEAFING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(botany) the process of forming leaves
Synonyms:
foliation; leafing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("leafing" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb leaf
