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page

leaf through something

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turn over a new leaf

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Synonyms for leaf

to look through reading matter casually

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The differences between the four phenological types in the mean minimum levels of canopy fullness, the mean duration of canopy at levels [less than]50%, and the mean duration of leaflessness are summarized in Table 2.
Although average canopy fullness did not reach zero at any time, some individual trees of all species in this group did have periods of leaflessness during at least one dry season.
This rise in water potential was coincident with the period of leaflessness in the deciduous species and the period of maximum canopy decline in the semideciduous species.
(38) To know this promise, humanity's "serious reflection" (408) must be "composed / Neither of comic nor tragic but of commonplace," as Stevens writes after reconsidering his "total leaflessness" (407): one must consider human death neither as the "clipped" (37) relation of the "Comedian" nor as the tragic doom of the "Anglais," but as one more iteration in the world's commonplace pattern.