A dialectal or archaic term for a leaf, blade of grass, or the leafy part of a plant.
From Old English 'blæd' (leaf), related to Germanic roots; the word survives mainly in Scottish and Northern English dialects as a variant of 'blade.'
The word 'blad' reminds us that 'blade' started as plant terminology—we still call grass blades and leaf blades, showing how plant language shaped our understanding of shapes!
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