Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fall of the year; the autumn.
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Examples
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The process leading to leaf-fall is not affected by Indian summers or unusually cold weather.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The process leading to leaf-fall is not affected by Indian summers or unusually cold weather.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It is her beauty and her safety both, her melodious hope, a thing of special merit, a cleansing, the fleet leaf-fall of something godly blowing through the world.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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It is her beauty and her safety both, her melodious hope, a thing of special merit, a cleansing, the fleet leaf-fall of something godly blowing through the world.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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We have no snow here and have had only light frosts, but may I whine about the timing of leaf-fall in Austin?
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It is her beauty and her safety both, her melodious hope, a thing of special merit, a cleansing, the fleet leaf-fall of something godly blowing through the world.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Round here commuters are treated to the yearly joke of a "leaf-fall" train timetable.
Commuting -the nightmare Valleys Mam 2007
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We had `leaf-fall problems,' `leaf-fall season,' `track adhesion problems,' and a number of others, but basically all it meant was that our trains were late.
August 29th, 2007 2007
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Sawtooth CO2 is due to the seasonal sinking of carbon during summer and subsequent release during autumn leaf-fall in the temperature deciduous forests of the NH.
An Analysis of the TOPEX Sea Level Record « Climate Audit 2006
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Agroforestry systems take advantage of trees for many uses, to hold the soil, to increase fertility through nitrogen fixation, or through bringing minerals from deep in the soil and depositing them by leaf-fall, to provide shade, construction materials, foods and fuel.
Chapter 27 1996
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