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In some senses, leafmeal is marked as obsolete, poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
leafmeal
noun 2adv 1
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3ADJ.
yellow
VERB + LEAFMEAL
sinking, sunk
LEAFMEAL + NOUN
cat
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adv
1
One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
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; […]
noun
1
A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
2
Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.
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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; […]
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The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.
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