looseleaf
adjEtymology From loose + leaf (“sheet of a book, magazine, etc.”).
1
Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
- All the pages fell out of my looseleaf notebook.
2
Of tea: supplied as whole tea leaves rather than teabags.
3
Of lettuce: having loosely bunched leaves.
- Looseleaf lettuce is popularly used in salads.