Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leafing

1 sense of leafing

Sense 1
foliation, leafing -- ((botany) the process of forming leaves)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb leaf

3 senses of leaf

Sense 1
flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff -- (look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume")
       => peruse -- (examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure")

Sense 2
leaf -- (turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript")
       => turn, turn over -- (cause to move around a center so as to show another side of; "turn a page of a book")

Sense 3
leaf -- (produce leaves, of plants)
       => grow, develop, produce, get, acquire -- (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts")