yellow leaf

noun

1

: any of several diseases of plants characterized by chlorosis of the foliage (as cherry leaf spot)

2

: the latter years of life : old age

my way of life is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf

—Shakespeare

fifty-three … the yellow leaf is upon me

—Christopher Isherwood

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