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leafy

[ lee-fee ]

/ ˈli fi /

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adjective, leaf·i·er, leaf·i·est.

having, abounding in, or covered with leaves or foliage: the leafy woods.

having broad leaves or consisting mainly of leaves: leafy vegetables.

leaflike; foliaceous.

Origin of leafy

First recorded in 1545–55; leaf + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM leafy

leaf·i·ness, noun

Words nearby leafy

leafed, leafhopper, leaflet, leafleteer, leafstalk, leafy, league, league city, league football, league of arab states, league of nations

Example sentences from the Web for leafy

It looks like the shoot-out at the OK Corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.

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On the streets you will come across many young people wearing clothes with leafy designs.

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The salmon is presented atop a mound of sautéed vegetables: mushrooms, peppers, squash, onions, leafy greens, and herbs.

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All the rapid fire no doubt jangles his neighbors on North Happ Road in the leafy village of Northfield.

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Brigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia.

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It was moonlight, and the dwarf oak-trees made druid shadows all along the leafy galleries that overhung the pools.

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All summer long we are imprisoned in foliage, locked up in a leafy embrace.

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The outline of the leafy part is triangular in form, and on either side of the rachis are the tapering pinnæ.

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Leafy huts were being begun; courts smeared with paste, and the inside of the huts scrubbed.

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Down in those lonely valleys, almost hidden in their leafy groves, was the home of many an old Virginia aristocrat.

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British Dictionary definitions for leafy

leafy

/ (ˈliːfɪ) /

adjective leafier or leafiest

covered with or having leaves

resembling a leaf or leaves

Derived forms of leafy

leafiness, noun