leafy

English

Alternative forms

• leavy

Etymology

Fromleaf+‎-y.

Pronunciation

• enPR:lēfʹē,IPA^(key):/ˈliːfi/

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• Rhymes:-iːfi

Adjective

leafy(comparativeleafier,superlativeleafiest)

1. covered with leaves

   leafytrees

2. containing muchfoliage

   aleafyavenue

3. in the form of leaves (of some material)
4. resembling aleaf
5. (of a place)wealthy,middle-orupper-class

   They live in a beautiful house in aleafysuburb.

   • 2008January 23, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, inparliamentary debates(House of Commons)‎^[1],column392:

     Those are not necessarily theleafiestareas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a veryleafyplace in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.

   • 2014July 21, Kyle Caldwell, “Income tax league table: the towns that pay the most and least tax in Britain”, inDaily Telegraph‎^[2]:

     Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in theleafiestareas of the country pay three times this amount.

   • 2014October 10, Fraser Nelson, “Clacton by-election: The Tories cannot fight forleafyareas and forget the poor”, inThe Guardian‎^[3]:

     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 forleafyareas, hiding from the poorer ones.

Synonyms

• (in the form of leaves (of some material)):foliated,laminate,layered

Derived terms

• leafily
• leafiness
• leafy goosefoot
• leafy greens
• leafy liverwort
• leafy sea dragon
• leafy spurge
• leafy-stemmed
• leafy vegetable
• non-leafy

Translations

covered with leaves

• Aromanian:frãndzos
• Catalan:fullós(ca),fullat(ca)
• Dutch:gebladerd(nl)
• Finnish:lehtevä(fi)
• French:feuillu(fr)
• Galician:folloso,frondoso(gl)
• German:laubtragender,belaubt(de),laubig,beblättert
• Indonesian:rimbun(id)
• Irish:duilleach,duilleogach,duilliúrach,^{(pleaseverify)}bileogach
• Italian:foglioso
• Latin:foliātus,frondeus,pampinōsus
• Malay:rimbun
• Maori:pūruru
• Norman:fieillu(Jersey)
• Old Javanese:sukĕt
• Portuguese:frondoso(pt)
• Romanian:frunzos(ro)
• Scottish Gaelic:duilleagach
• Spanish:frondoso(es)

containing much foliage

• Arabic:please add this translation if you can
• Catalan:fullós(ca),fullat(ca)
• Dutch:bladrijk,loofrijk,bladerrijk
• Finnish:lehtevä(fi)
• French:feuillu(fr)
• German:laubreich(de),begrünt(de),blattreich,blätterreich
• Irish:duilleach,duilleogach,duilliúrach,^{(pleaseverify)}bileogach
• Italian:fronzuto(it)
• Japanese:please add this translation if you can
• Korean:please add this translation if you can
• Latin:frondeus,foliātus,pampinōsus
• Maori:please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese:folhoso(pt),frondoso(pt)
• Romanian:frunzos(ro)
• Spanish:frondoso(es)
• Swahili:please add this translation if you can

in the form of leaves (of some material)

• French:feuilleté(fr)
• German:blattartig,Blatt-
• Irish:^{(pleaseverify)}bileogach
• Portuguese:foliáceo
• Spanish:foliáceo

resembling a leaf

• Catalan:fullós(ca),foliaci
• German:blattartig
• Irish:^{(pleaseverify)}bileogach

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian:^{(pleaseverify)}frunzos(ro)

Anagrams

• Fayle,fayle