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Vinony

leafmeal

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From leaf + -meal.

  1. One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.

    “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; […]”

noun

Etymology: From leaf + meal, modelled after leafmould.

  1. A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
  2. Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter

    “The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.”