[ adj ] having or covered with leaves <adj.all> leafy treesleafy vegetables
Leafy \Leaf"y\, a. [Compar. {Leafier}; superl. {Leafiest}.] 1. Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. ``The leafy month of June.'' --Coleridge.
2. Consisting of leaves. ``A leafy bed.'' --Byron.
In Eugene, concrete restrooms and overgrown trees have been removed, and the latter replaced by slimmer, less leafy trees.
The neighborhood becomes more residential, leafy and pleasant west of Frankford Avenue.
The settings drifted towards naturalistic illusion: best of all was the leafy canopy for Act 2, an overhead sea of undulating green umbrellas.
Monet himself first added these arches to his garden's metalwork in 1891 when he was 51. I am pleased to discover that he painted them a bright and leafy shade of green.
Fresh leafy millet stalks are sold in bundles to the hungry who can still afford to buy food.
The vase was made by the sculptor Dioscourides and depicts men and women in a leafy setting _ probably the courtship of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis, who became the parents of the mythical Greek warrior Achilles.
Sponsorship, massive TV revenues and player endorsements have turned tennis into a huge global business. And then there is Wimbledon, still the private ivy-clad members' club in the leafy suburbs of south-west London.
Michael Bottari and Ronald Case designed the revolving set, including a large tree that spins to reveal the boy's leafy sanctuary.
Good colour, leafy aroma.
The leafy streets, the puppies, the kids, a comfy gray-shingled house.
Requirements for folate, which is found in liver, leafy vegetables and some fruit, have been reduced from 400 micrograms for both men and women to 240 micrograms for men aged 25 to 50 and 190 micrograms for women of the same ages.
He should be back with a cooler full of 5,000 flea beetles eating leafy spurge.
The new city symbol is now a leafy branch with a cardinal perched on top.
Whatever the reasons, the development of competition between providers means that such cost disadvantages will grow. At the same time, inner London is losing population, as the people these hospitals grew up to service move out to the leafy suburbs.
There in the leafy woods beside the trail, the jogger was raped and stabbed.
Koalas sit wedged in the crotches of gum branches, sleeping soundly in the leafy shade.
One group, in leafy Primrose Hill, has even asked the High Court to quash the policy on the grounds that it is illegally designed to raise funds rather than administer parking.
Unlike New York's St. John the Divine, which is on the edge of Harlem, the Washington cathedral is on a leafy hilltop in a fashionable residential area far from the troubled inner city.