[ US /ˈɫifi/ ]
[ UK /lˈiːfi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or covered with leaves
    leafy trees
    leafy vegetables
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How To Use leafy In A Sentence

  • They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
  • And I may not be an expert, but I could swear it is far quieter within the protective leafy screen.
  • The church has a spacious yard on the right side where several leafy trees grow and which are used as a parking space for the congregation on Sunday.
  • Green, leafy vegetables are especially high in minerals and fiber, so should be eaten often.
  • In the apple I have observed leafy shoots bearing terminal tufts of leaves where the flower should have been, so that what, under ordinary circumstances would be a corymb of flowers, is here represented by a series of tufts of leaves. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Include lots of green leafy vegetables and sweet juicy fruits.
  • The leafy suburbs and rural areas also have their fill of young people using drugs. Taking Drugs Seriously
  • Gai laan, Chinese broccoli, has delicious tender stems and choi sum is a leafy veg rather like pak choi. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Woodlands are the butcherbird's natural habitat, but like many similar species they have adapted well to urbanisation and can be found in leafy suburbs.
  • But farinaceous sediments in the urine are bad, and still worse are the leafy; the white and thin are very bad, but the furfuraceous are still worse than these. The Book Of Prognostics
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