leafy
English
Alternative forms
- leavy (consisting of leaves; obsolete in the sense "covered with leaves")
Pronunciation
- enPR: lēfʹē, IPA(key): /ˈliːfi/
- Rhymes: -iːfi
Adjective
leafy (comparative leafier, superlative leafiest)
- covered with leaves
- leafy trees
- containing much foliage
- a leafy avenue
- in the form of leaves (of some material)
- resembling a leaf
- (of a place) wealthy, middle- or upper-class
- 2008 January, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 392:
- Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a very leafy place in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.
- 2014 October 10, Fraser Nelson, “Clacton by-election: The Tories cannot fight for leafy areas and forget the poor”, in The Guardian:
- The Tories plan to give their all against the other Ukip defector, Mark Reckless, in the more prosperous Rochester & Strood next month. But this plays to the stereotype: Tories fighting for leafy areas, hiding from the poorer ones.
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Derived terms
- leafily
- leafiness
- leafy greens
- leafy liverwort
- leafy sea dragon
- leafy spurge
- leafy vegetable
Translations
covered with leaves
containing much foliage
in the form of leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
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