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looseleaf

The English word “looseleaf” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Lined paper, usually collected in a binder.

adjective

  1. Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
  2. Of tea: supplied as whole tea leaves rather than teabags.
  3. Of lettuce: having loosely bunched leaves.

Etymology

From loose + leaf (“sheet of a book, magazine, etc.”).

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