leafmeal
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adverb[edit]
leafmeal (not comparable)
- (poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
- 1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51:
- 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; […]
Etymology 2[edit]
From leaf + meal, modelled after leafmould.
Noun[edit]
leafmeal (uncountable)
- A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
- Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
- 2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103:
- The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.