leafy
adjective
having, abounding in, or covered with leaves or foliage.
leafiness
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a word derived from
leafy.
Example Sentences
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Palms are freeloader trees: They suck down water like camels, but give back barely enough leafiness to shade a Hula-Hoop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Palms suck down water like camels, but give back barely enough leafiness to shade a Hula-Hoop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Then the thin lines return, gentler and more supple, in “Blue Trees” of 1945, an early mature painting; they seem almost to sway within the soft masses of blue and mauve leafiness of different trees.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
An accompanying kale Caesar circumvented excess healthiness with almost as much grana padano as green leafiness, while dinner rolls had hidden troves of buttery pesto.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
He raves perpetually about "greenfields," "jaunty streams," and "o'er-arching leafiness," exactly as a Cheapside shop-keeper does about the beauties of his box on the Camberwell road.
From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley
