Kanji葉
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counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.; (arch.) counter for boats
leaves turning red (in autumn); red leaves; autumn colours; fall colors
tea leaf; tea leaves
one leaf; one page; one sheet; (arch.) one boat
branches and leaves; foliage; unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue
ornamental (foliage) plant; houseplant
fallen leaves; leaf litter; leaf fall; dropping leaves; deciduous
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages
two flat things
conifer; needle-leaved tree
humus; leaf mold; leaf mould; mulch
conifer forest; coniferous forest; needle-leaved forest
broadleaf tree; broad-leaved tree
leaf vegetable; green vegetable; edible herb
leaf venation; leaf nervature; leaf vein; leaf nerve
floral leaf
lobe; lobule; lobulus; leaflet; foliole; microphyll
unimportant details; inessentials
about the middle (of an era); middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate)
leaf surface; foliar surface; phylloplane
(Japanese) larch (Larix leptolepis, Larix kaempferi)
leaves turning yellow (in autumn); yellow leaves; golden leaves; autumn colours; fall colors
right lobe
(pine) needle; needle-leaf
leaf stalk; petiole
willow-leaf arrowhead; part of a Japanese stirrup; willow leaf
Stevenson screen (louvre-sided box housing for meteorological gauges); instrument shelter
man'yōgana; early Japanese syllabary of Chinese characters used phonetically
new leaves; young leaves; fresh verdure
upper lobe (of lung); superior lobe
scattering of the blossoms and falling of the leaves; (fig.) the impermanence of worldly things
Tokyo and Chiba
end (of an era, century); close; descendant
compound leaf; multifoliate leaf; biplane (aircraft)
broad-leaved forest; broadleaf forest
evergreen (glossy-leaved) forest
bloodline; lineage; family; clan
cotyledon; seed leaf
Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai); goyoumatsu
thin Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper); Japanese tissue
broad-leaved tree
poetic style typical of Man'yōshū
stems and leaves
thin paper (esp. thin Japanese vellum paper)
simple leaf; unifoliate leaf; monoplane (aircraft)
member of the Imperial family; royalty; beautiful clouds
true leaf; foliage leaf
Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora)
preceding page; anterior pituitary
leaf margin
leaf sheath; vagina
beginning of an epoch; initial period
thin sheet of silver; silver foil; censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony; Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam
dicotyledon; dicot
posterity; future generations; descendant; posterior pituitary; neurohypophysis
East Asian evergreen forest culture (theory)
pulmonary lobe; lobe of the lung
lotus leaf
lamina; leaf blade; blade; leaf-like; blade-shaped; foliaceous
laminitis; founder
monocotyledon; monocot
pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
loquat leaf (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
scale leaf (forming part of a bulb)
center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas)
lobe of the liver
insectivorous leaf; trap leaf
lusterleaf holly (Ilex latifolia); pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
thick Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper)
radical leaf; rosette
deciduous (e.g. tree)
next page
palm-leaf manuscript
germ layer; germinal epithelium
tree whose leaves turn red in autumn
leafy vegetables; stem vegetables
sterile frond
adenohypophyseal hormone
radical leaf; rosette; basal leaf
a straw will show which way the wind blows; a falling leaf shows that autumn has come
lower lobe (of lung); inferior lobe
neurohypophyseal hormone
anterior pituitary; pars distalis; adenohypophysis
autumn foliage front; fall foliage front
lobotomy; leucotomy; frontal lobotomy; frontal leucotomy
foliaceous; foliaceus
floating-leaved plant; floating plant
foliar spray; leaf surface spray; foliar application
petiole wing (leaf)
pruning excess leaves; leaf thinning
phyllotaxis; phyllotaxy
omasum; psalterium; third compartment of the stomach in ruminants
cladophyll; cladode; phylloclade
leaf primordium
imparipinnate compound leaf; odd-pinnate compound leaf
leaf curl; peach leaf curl
red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea)
paripinnate compound leaf; even-pinnate compound leaf
sclerophyllous tree
infundibular leaf
sclerophyll forest; sclerophyllous forest; hardwood forest
Order of the Precious Crown, Apricot
Dactylostalix ringens (species of orchid); rigid Dactylostalix
skeleton flower (Diphylleia grayi)
Ephippianthus schmidtii (species of orchid)
Lecanorchis japonica (species of saprophytic orchid)
Amami pine (Pinus amamiana); Yakushima white pine
Atlas broom (Argyrocytisus battandieri)
kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
leaf (of a tree); tree leaves; foliage