leafy

English

Alternative forms

leavy (consisting of leaves; obsolete in the sense "covered with leaves")

Etymology

leaf +‎ -y

Pronunciation

enPR: lēfʹē, IPA^(key): /ˈliːfi/
Rhymes: -iːfi

Adjective

leafy (comparative leafier, superlative leafiest)

covered with leaves
leafy trees
containing much foliage
a leafy avenue
in the form of leaves (of some material)
resembling a leaf
(of a place) wealthy, middle- or upper-class
- 2008 January, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)‎, column 392:
  Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a very leafy place in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.
- 2014 July 21, Kyle Caldwell, “Income tax league table: the towns that pay the most and least tax in Britain”, in Daily Telegraph‎:
  Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.
- 2014 October 10, Fraser Nelson, “Clacton by-election: The Tories cannot fight for leafy areas and forget the poor”, in The Guardian‎:
  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 for leafy areas, hiding from the poorer ones.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

leafily
leafiness
leafy greens
leafy liverwort
leafy sea dragon
leafy spurge
leafy vegetable

Translations

covered with leaves

Aromanian: frãndzos
Finnish: lehtevä (fi)
French: feuillu (fr) m, feuillue (fr) f
Indonesian: rimbun (id)
Irish: duilleach, duilleogach, duilliúrach, ^{(please verify)} bileogach
Italian: foglioso m, fogliosa f, fronzuto (it) m, fronzuto (it) f
Latin: foliātus, pampinōsus

Maori: pūruru
Norman: fieillu (Jersey)
Portuguese: frondoso (pt)
Romanian: frunzos (ro)
Scottish Gaelic: duilleagach
Spanish: frondoso (es)

containing much foliage

Finnish: lehtevä (fi)
French: feuillu (fr)
Irish: duilleach, duilleogach, duilliúrach, ^{(please verify)} bileogach
Latin: foliātus, pampinōsus

Portuguese: folhoso
Romanian: frunzos (ro)
Spanish: frondoso (es)

in the form of leaves (of some material)

French: feuilleté (fr) m, feuilletée (fr) f
Irish: ^{(please verify)} bileogach

Portuguese: foliáceo
Spanish: foliáceo

resembling a leaf

Irish: ^{(please verify)} bileogach

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Romanian: ^{(please verify)} frunzos (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} frunzoasă f, ^{(please verify)} frunzoși m pl, ^{(please verify)} frunzoase f pl