Meaning of leafy in English

leafy

adjective

/ˈliː.fi/ us

/ˈliː.fi/

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A leafy place is pleasant and has a lot of trees:

a leafy lane/suburb

People love the leafy streets and period houses of the area.

Synonym

green (PLANTS)

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Opposite

leafless

A leafy plant, tree, or vegetable has a lot of leaves:

Tall, leafy trees shade quiet neighbourhoods.

Make sure you eat plenty of dark green, leafy vegetables.

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leafless

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The mansion is in a leafy suburb of Havana.
He was led through a small, leafy, courtyard.
The lack of a canopy of trees means the sun can reach the leafy plants on the ground.
Green, leafy vegetables are antioxidant-rich sources of lutein.

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(Definition of leafy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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leafy

adjective

/ˈli·fi/

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(of a plant) having many of the flat, usually green parts that are joined at one end to the stem or branch:

You should include plenty of green leafy vegetables in your diet.

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Examples of leafy

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The seeds are flattened and seedlings are phaneroepigeal with leafy cotyledons.

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Alternatively, the cyclospora oocyst extraction method available may not have worked as well for green leafy vegetables as compared to raspberries.

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This is supplemented with bananas, maize, beans and green leafy vegetables, but there are no significant sources of animal protein in the diet.

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Early spring defoliation patterns can condition the sward for mid-season growth by promoting leafier herbage with fewer reproductive tillers.

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The leafy shrub usually reaches 1.5-3 m, but there are trees up to 10 m tall.

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Leaves and branches were weighed separately and the leafy biomass was incorporated into the soil.

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Yield and quality of leafy vegetables grown with organic fertilizations.

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And it certainly had an aesthetic as well as a scientific component; it was concerned both with leafy facts and the beauty of leaves.

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They are therefore believed to be the leafy branches of a large arborescent progymnosperm.

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However, the extent to which the leafy biomass meets requirements of the crop depends on a number of factors.

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The foot of mountains that contain metal are usually covered by dense and leafy ferns and their summits are dressed with plants of blackened leaves.

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Dryobalanops lanceolata seedlings were tallest and leafiest, and this species showed the largest increases in growth and accumulation of leaf area.

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For example, farmers' preference for leafy varieties agreed with the researchers' preference for straw varieties with high digestibility since high leaf content is well correlated with high digestibility.

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Inga species generally exhibit rapid growth, tolerance of acid soils and high production of leafy biomass, which helps to control weeds and erosion.

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Dryobalanops lanceolata was the tallest and leafiest species, and had low levels of leaf damage.

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