as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth
the backyard's leafy bushes look nice, but have a tendency to attract deer
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Recent Examples of leafy
Red-eared slider turtles may chow down on earthworms, snails, slugs and leafy greens, according to VCA Animal Hospitals.
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Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Borscht, for the uninitiated who may not have had a bubbe of Romanian descent who had jars of the sour soup in her Miami Beach kitchen cabinets in the 1970s, is made with meat stock, vegetables like red beetroots or the leafy green sorrel or cabbage and seasonings.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
The gated property is fronted by large lawns and a winding driveway flanked by leafy, mature trees that leads to a landscaped motor court with a porte cochère.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025
Swap out the kale for Swiss chard, spinach, collards, or your favorite leafy greens.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
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Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Borscht, for the uninitiated who may not have had a bubbe of Romanian descent who had jars of the sour soup in her Miami Beach kitchen cabinets in the 1970s, is made with meat stock, vegetables like red beetroots or the leafy green sorrel or cabbage and seasonings.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
The gated property is fronted by large lawns and a winding driveway flanked by leafy, mature trees that leads to a landscaped motor court with a porte cochère.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025
Swap out the kale for Swiss chard, spinach, collards, or your favorite leafy greens.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leafy
Adjective
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Swiss cheese vine’s length and dramatic foliage bring lush maximalism to any room.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
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Explore Palm Beach 13 of 18 Leu Gardens Orlando Far from the theme parks and the city traffic is a lush, tropical wonderland.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For example, previous mockups using the colors red, yellow and green to call out different levels did not make a statistically significant difference in helping people interpret the box.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Each group is coded by a color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple for more challenging sets.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Norwegian league is not the strongest in the world but a 15-year-old playing central midfield against grown men is quite something.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Some, including the OP's own mother and brother, supported her position, while others, like her eldest sister with grown children, criticized her actions.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Granted much of that California acreage is uninhabited forest as distinct from a dense, mostly wooden city filled with new immigrants, but that’s still eight times the size, a bigger area than than occupied by Manhattan.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the simple fact that much of the densest forest is on terrain so steep that loggers’ machines couldn’t even access it.—
Elizabeth Miller,
Outside Online,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Leafy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leafy. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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