I drop from the trees when autumn winds blow, yet I am also what a departing guest does before it starts to snow. What am I?
Leaves
The answer relies on homographs, which are words that share the same spelling but have completely different meanings. In autumn, colorful foliage drops from trees, and these plant structures are called leaves. Simultaneously, 'leaves' is the third-person singular present form of the verb 'to leave,' meaning to depart from a location.
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