leafmeal

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English

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Etymology 1

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From leaf +‎ -meal.

Adverb

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leafmeal (not comparable)

  1. (poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
    • 1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published [], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51:
      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; []

Etymology 2

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From leaf +‎ meal, modelled after leafmould.

Noun

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leafmeal (uncountable)

  1. A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
  2. Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
    • 2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103:
      The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.