waterleaf

• water-leaf

From water +‎ leaf.

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waterleaf (plural waterleafs or waterleaves)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
2. (botany) Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
3. A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 19:

     ‘I like how the onions and waterleaf are slightly raw. They spice the egusi nicely, very nicely.’

4. (architecture) A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
5. (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper, somewhat like blotter paper.

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

• water flea, waterflea