loose-leaf
Because it is a word with a single syllable, loose-leaf is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofloose-leaf
- (of a plant or a tea) that has loosely connected or separate leaves
Example: "Lab tests would later reveal that the plant material was actually loose-leaf tea."
- Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
Example: "All the pages fell out of my looseleaf notebook."
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