leafy
/ˈliːfi/ adjective B2- Covered with leaves. · leafy trees· leafy vegetables
- Containing much foliage. · a leafy avenue
- In the form of leaves (of some material).
- Resembling a leaf.
- Wealthy, middle- or upper-class. · They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.
Comparative leafier · Superlative leafiest
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Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples--“maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you”--until they came to a rustic bridge.
And hear the leafy garden shake
Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
I finally found a cozy one-bedroom apartment in a quiet, leafy suburban neighborhood.
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