• Waterleaf

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    water + leaf

    Noun

    waterleaf

    (plural waterleaves)
    1. (botany) Any plant of the genus .
    2. (botany) Any plant of , the waterleaf family.
    3. A tropical plant (), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
    4. (architecture) A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
    5. (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper like blotters as opposed to slake-sized or hard sized papers.

    Synonyms

    • (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable): , , , , , , , sweetheart

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