Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈliːfi/
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ˈliːfi
Adjective
Covered with leaves.
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leafy trees
leafy vegetables
Containing much foliage.
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a leafy avenue
The Earth is facing a climate crisis, but it’s also getting greener and leafier. According to new research, the rise is largely courtesy of China and India.
In the form of leaves (of some material).
Resembling a leaf.
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Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
Wealthy, middle- or upper-class.
Usage- of a place
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They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.
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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.
Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.
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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.
In an essay for the New Yorker about her own move, also prompted by a breakup, Dunham contrasts the chaotic grit of New York with the “spaciousness” of London – a city that “doesn’t jangle me”. Dunham, as you may by now be sensing, lives in one of the leafier parts of north London.
Adjective
having or covered with leaves
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leafy trees
leafy vegetables