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Leaves vs Leafage - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between leaves and leafage

is that leaves is plural of lang=en while leafage is the leaves of plants collectively; foliage.

As a verb leaves

is third-person singular of leave.

leaves

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (leave)

    • Statistics

    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    leafage

    English

    Noun

  • The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.
    • Color change in New England is the tourist time, when people come to see the leafage turn brilliant colors.
  • * 1932 , Rudyard Kipling, They
    • She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child, it seemed, clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer.