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waterleaf en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From water + leaf.

Meanings

1. Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
2. Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
3. A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
   • ‘I like how the onions and waterleaf are slightly raw. They spice the egusi nicely, very nicely.’ 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 19:
4. A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
5. (qualifier:paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper, somewhat like blotter paper.

Forms

Deriveds

ballhead waterleaf · blunt-leaf waterleaf · dwarf waterleaf · great waterleaf · Pacific waterleaf · western waterleaf · waterleaf capital · bluntleaf waterleaf · Brown's waterleaf · Virginia waterleaf · Fendler's waterleaf · largeleaf waterleaf · ball-headed waterleaf

Synonyms

Florida spinach (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · potherb fameflower (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · cariru (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · Lagos bologi (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · Philippine spinach (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · Ceylon spinach (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · Surinam purslane (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable) · sweetheart (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable)

Translations (3)

car sakusaku (Talinum fruticosum) · nl postelein (Talinum fruticosum) · srn posren (Talinum fruticosum)