: having leaves
—usually used in combination
palmate-leaved
a four-leaved clover
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Plant the blue-leaved varieties like ‘Cassa Blue’ (18 inches tall and wide), ‘King Alfred’ (2 feet tall and wide) and ‘Clarity Blue’ (2 feet tall and wide) into a perennial bed or use as a foundation plant.
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
However, momoji-gari or koyo don’t just refer to red-leaved maple trees in practice, according to Boutique Japan, but make the catchphrases for leaf peeping activities.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
Soon, those green pioneers will be joined by shrubby coffee plants, big-leaved banana trees, and native trees, like sturdy hardwood jatobas, or towering guanandis.
—Time, 3 Jan. 2023
The steppe of Santa Cruz province in upper Patagonia was formed by glaciers pushing down from the Andes, leaving a trail of valleys carpeted in basalt rubble and coirón, the sharp-leaved grass tufts that can withstand the wind and drought.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
However, momoji-gari or koyo don’t just refer to red-leaved maple trees in practice, according to Boutique Japan, but make the catchphrases for leaf peeping activities.
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
Soon, those green pioneers will be joined by shrubby coffee plants, big-leaved banana trees, and native trees, like sturdy hardwood jatobas, or towering guanandis.
—Time, 3 Jan. 2023
The steppe of Santa Cruz province in upper Patagonia was formed by glaciers pushing down from the Andes, leaving a trail of valleys carpeted in basalt rubble and coirón, the sharp-leaved grass tufts that can withstand the wind and drought.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
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“Leaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leaved. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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