leafage
nounEtymology From leaf + -age.
1
The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.
- Color change in New England is the tourist time, when people come to see the leafage turn brilliant colors.
- She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child, it seemed, clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer.1932, Rudyard Kipling, They: