LOOSELEAF + NOUN
lettuce, notebook
PREP.
out
ADV.
popularly
noun
Lined paper, usually collected in a binder.
adj
Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
All the pages fell out of my looseleaf notebook.
Of tea: supplied as whole tea leaves rather than teabags.
Of lettuce: having loosely bunched leaves.
Looseleaf lettuce is popularly used in salads.