leafmeal

English

Etymology 1

From leaf +‎ -meal.

Adverb

leafmeal (not comparable)

1. (poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
   • 1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51:

     Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]

Etymology 2

From leaf +‎ meal, modelled after leafmould.

Noun

leafmeal (uncountable)

1. A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
2. Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
   • 2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103:

     The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.