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单词 leafy
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Definition of leafy in English:

leafy

adjectiveleafiest, leafier ˈliːfiˈlifi
  • 1Having many leaves or much foliage.

    a leafy glade

    偏僻而枝叶茂密的林间空地。

    leafy bushes
    the leafy suburbs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The streets were covered with these buildings, and not a blade of grass nor a leafy tree could be found.
    • It's the most beautiful leafy tree in the school.
    • When they finally did become leafy, the first trees emerged and gave rise to the earliest forests.
    • The shade trees were leafy and always green, but absolutely gigantic.
    • From the peak it's only about a half mile down until you reach where the trees start getting leafy, and then it isn't too much farther until you get to the creek, which is very close to where the bears live.
    • The city is an oasis of grass lawns and leafy trees.
    • A tree pressed its leafy branches to my window, and through the mesh of leaves I caught hints of hedges and flowerbeds.
    • They observed Asian elephants, both wild and captive, tearing off leafy side branches from trees or from unwieldy limbs already on the ground.
    • The church has a spacious yard on the right side where several leafy trees grow and which are used as a parking space for the congregation on Sunday.
    • There under a leafy banyan tree, the boy was sitting.
    • Wang wondered why residents had to give up their leafy trees and green meadow for the marsh and concrete pond.
    • A retractable awning provides instant shade when the sun moves beyond a leafy almond tree, and a broad railing serves as auxiliary seating.
    • In this exhibition, the dominant color was the luminous green of the leafy vines that spread over many of his canvases, sometimes obscuring nearly everything else.
    • And I may not be an expert, but I could swear it is far quieter within the protective leafy screen.
    • While all around them, beautiful trees waved their leafy fans in the air and two loyal horses gazed at their puzzling humans.
    • When I investigated, I found all five young perched in a row about fifteen feet up in a leafy ironwood tree.
    • Give him something to look at when he's in his cot or pram - a mobile, perhaps, or park the pram under a leafy tree.
    • They were, as I had guessed, thick with leafy trees and swarming with life.
    • In life, few things are precise: grass is not always green, and trees are not always leafy.
    • Of course, because the windows are so filled with leafy green trees, the green accent pieces pick up that green from the outside.
    Synonyms
    shaded, shadowy, dark, dim, sunless
    1. 1.1 (of a plant) producing or grown for its broad-bladed leaves.
      (植物)大叶的,阔叶的
      green leafy vegetables

      大叶绿色蔬菜。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Dietary sources of folic acid include green leafy vegetables, breakfast cereals and bread.
      • Rows of bright green, leafy tobacco plants grow in a humid greenhouse.
      • In spring, beaver switch to green and leafy vegetation.
      • The reduction did not occur with potatoes and legumes, and was highest with cruciferous vegetables, citrus fruits and leafy green vegetables.
      • One serving is one cup of raw leafy vegetables, or one medium apple.
      • If she hadn't have been so cold, she would have been quite comfortable; her belly was full of bread, honey, some sort of spiced meat, a leafy herb, and tea.
      • Leafy greens, beans, and orange juice are good sources of folate.
      • Fruit crops like tomatoes and cucumbers took very little radioactivity, in contrast to leafy crops like spinach, and were safe to eat.
      • Tie leafy herbs with long stems in bunches and hang to air dry.
      • Green leafy crops continue to be irrigated until the time of harvest.
      • Herbivores are quite important for the reef because they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
      • It eats mainly grass seeds and other green leafy vegetation.
      • These leafy vegetables may be grown for the greens, the roots or both.
      • This high biomass habitat, the ‘core’ habitat, is usually dominated by a few large leafy species that are superior competitors for light.
      • Sulphuric acid is still the most widely used desiccant on potatoes, used to wither the leafy foliage, or haulm, before harvesting.
      • Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable).
      • Frantically twisting the leafy herbs into various intricate shapes of power, he adorned her chest, pointing them so that all invoked power would be directed to the amulet.
      • Choose from dark leafy salad greens, asparagus, spinach, broccoli and more.
      • Unlike the water-saturated and rocky land further west, south-east Ireland boasts leafy grasses, moderate rainfall, and good drainage.
      • Nuts and seeds, green leafy vegetables and wheat germ are rich dietary sources of manganese.
      Synonyms
      green, grassy, grass-covered
    2. 1.2 Resembling a leaf or leaves.
      叶状的
      a three-pointed leafy bract

      三角叶状苞片。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fruit plates and salad plates are available in plenty in multi-coloured shades in leafy patterns from Germany.
      • The stamens are a dusty yellow and each flower has a ruff of leafy bracts at its base.
      Synonyms
      verdant, grassy, grass-covered, verdurous

Derivatives

  • leafiness

  • noun ˈliːfɪnəsˈlifinəs
    • Its reassuring vegetableness, its green leafiness, the way it looked natural on a farm, spoke to our deep cabbagey values.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The first, the ‘natural’ approach, is to avoid excessive leafiness around the fruit, which means that bunches are better exposed to sun and wind which dry the fruit after rain or dew.
      • Back in the imperial leafiness of central Washington, that's exactly what senior officials in the Bush administration tell me he will offer early next year.
      • Lots of dark, ripe fruit on the nose with cedar wood and a slight greeny leafiness.
      • Meanwhile, the sharpening air threshes the veteran bronze leafiness of the oaks and strips the pines, fretful in the breeze, of their needles.

Rhymes

beefy, Fifi

Definition of leafy in US English:

leafy

adjectiveˈlifiˈlēfē
  • 1Having many leaves or much foliage.

    a remote, leafy glade

    偏僻而枝叶茂密的林间空地。

    leafy bushes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Give him something to look at when he's in his cot or pram - a mobile, perhaps, or park the pram under a leafy tree.
    • And I may not be an expert, but I could swear it is far quieter within the protective leafy screen.
    • The church has a spacious yard on the right side where several leafy trees grow and which are used as a parking space for the congregation on Sunday.
    • It's the most beautiful leafy tree in the school.
    • In life, few things are precise: grass is not always green, and trees are not always leafy.
    • The city is an oasis of grass lawns and leafy trees.
    • The shade trees were leafy and always green, but absolutely gigantic.
    • While all around them, beautiful trees waved their leafy fans in the air and two loyal horses gazed at their puzzling humans.
    • They were, as I had guessed, thick with leafy trees and swarming with life.
    • The streets were covered with these buildings, and not a blade of grass nor a leafy tree could be found.
    • There under a leafy banyan tree, the boy was sitting.
    • When I investigated, I found all five young perched in a row about fifteen feet up in a leafy ironwood tree.
    • Wang wondered why residents had to give up their leafy trees and green meadow for the marsh and concrete pond.
    • A retractable awning provides instant shade when the sun moves beyond a leafy almond tree, and a broad railing serves as auxiliary seating.
    • A tree pressed its leafy branches to my window, and through the mesh of leaves I caught hints of hedges and flowerbeds.
    • When they finally did become leafy, the first trees emerged and gave rise to the earliest forests.
    • From the peak it's only about a half mile down until you reach where the trees start getting leafy, and then it isn't too much farther until you get to the creek, which is very close to where the bears live.
    • They observed Asian elephants, both wild and captive, tearing off leafy side branches from trees or from unwieldy limbs already on the ground.
    • Of course, because the windows are so filled with leafy green trees, the green accent pieces pick up that green from the outside.
    • In this exhibition, the dominant color was the luminous green of the leafy vines that spread over many of his canvases, sometimes obscuring nearly everything else.
    Synonyms
    shaded, shadowy, dark, dim, sunless
    1. 1.1 (of a plant) producing or grown for its broad-bladed leaves.
      (植物)大叶的,阔叶的
      green leafy vegetables

      大叶绿色蔬菜。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In spring, beaver switch to green and leafy vegetation.
      • Unlike the water-saturated and rocky land further west, south-east Ireland boasts leafy grasses, moderate rainfall, and good drainage.
      • Rows of bright green, leafy tobacco plants grow in a humid greenhouse.
      • These leafy vegetables may be grown for the greens, the roots or both.
      • The reduction did not occur with potatoes and legumes, and was highest with cruciferous vegetables, citrus fruits and leafy green vegetables.
      • Fruit crops like tomatoes and cucumbers took very little radioactivity, in contrast to leafy crops like spinach, and were safe to eat.
      • Green leafy crops continue to be irrigated until the time of harvest.
      • It eats mainly grass seeds and other green leafy vegetation.
      • One serving is one cup of raw leafy vegetables, or one medium apple.
      • Herbivores are quite important for the reef because they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
      • Frantically twisting the leafy herbs into various intricate shapes of power, he adorned her chest, pointing them so that all invoked power would be directed to the amulet.
      • If she hadn't have been so cold, she would have been quite comfortable; her belly was full of bread, honey, some sort of spiced meat, a leafy herb, and tea.
      • Sulphuric acid is still the most widely used desiccant on potatoes, used to wither the leafy foliage, or haulm, before harvesting.
      • This high biomass habitat, the ‘core’ habitat, is usually dominated by a few large leafy species that are superior competitors for light.
      • Choose from dark leafy salad greens, asparagus, spinach, broccoli and more.
      • Nuts and seeds, green leafy vegetables and wheat germ are rich dietary sources of manganese.
      • Dietary sources of folic acid include green leafy vegetables, breakfast cereals and bread.
      • Leafy greens, beans, and orange juice are good sources of folate.
      • Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable).
      • Tie leafy herbs with long stems in bunches and hang to air dry.
      Synonyms
      green, grassy, grass-covered
    2. 1.2 Resembling a leaf or leaves.
      叶状的
      a three-pointed leafy bract

      三角叶状苞片。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fruit plates and salad plates are available in plenty in multi-coloured shades in leafy patterns from Germany.
      • The stamens are a dusty yellow and each flower has a ruff of leafy bracts at its base.
      Synonyms
      verdant, grassy, grass-covered, verdurous
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