leafage

Other forms of leafage

plural

leafages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leafage

What does leafage mean?

leafage means "the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants".

How many syllables are in leafage?

leafage has 3 syllables: le-a-fage. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for leafage?

Close synonyms include leaf, foliage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leafage a common word?

leafage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.