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leafy

adjective as in abundant in foliage

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It looks like the shoot-out at the OK Corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.

On the streets you will come across many young people wearing clothes with leafy designs.

The salmon is presented atop a mound of sautéed vegetables: mushrooms, peppers, squash, onions, leafy greens, and herbs.

“During the dry season, women ate more green leafy vegetables,” Prentice said.

All the rapid fire no doubt jangles his neighbors on North Happ Road in the leafy village of Northfield.

There was a garden out in the suburbs; a small, leafy corner, with a few green tables under the orange trees.

"That longest, leafy branch touches the very wall of my room," she went on, creeping always a little down the hill.

A green gloom reigned there; it was the still hour of noon; the little birds were quiet in some leafy shade.

On he went, therefore, till he saw under the hedge a leafy arch over a drain, and he thought that he could pass through it.

Then he floated upward until he reached the leafy dome, and parting the branches he disappeared from sight.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leafy, such as: shaded, shady, verdant, wooded, abounding, and abundant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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