leafmeal

Etymology

From leaf + -meal.

adv

  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

  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.”