leafmeal🔊

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

💬 Quotations

Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1880)

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

Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter

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