leafyadj.

Brit.

/ˈliːfi/, U.S.

/ˈlifi/

Forms: see leaf n.¹ and -y suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leaf n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < leaf n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier leavy adj., and also earlier leaved adj.Compare German laubig, †laubicht having many leaves or much foliage (first half of the 16th cent. as †laubecht).

a. Having many leaves or much foliage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective]

in (full) leafOE

leavedc1300

leavy?1440

leafya1522

leavish1530

leafed1552

fronded1640

folious1658

foliaceous1676

frondent1677

furnished1712

foliose1727

leaf-strewn1730

foliaged1816

foliiferous1828

frondous1828

frondiparous1866

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. i. l. 35 A lenȝe watry garmond dyd hym vaill,..And leiffy redis dekkis weill hys haris.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Leaffy, or ful of leaues.

1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxxvi. f. 241v My daughter..had hid her selfe behind a thick leafie brake.

1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία i. 139 Thou hast been like a green and leafy Olive, which most beautifully flourishes, giving extraordinary hope of its Fruit.

1721 S. Croxall in Fair Circassian (ed. 2) 49 Sunny Beams here pierc'd the leafy Trees.

1784 F. Forbes Mod. Improvem. Agric. (new ed.) xiii. 192 Thick sowing of clover, and other grasses, makes small leafy plants.

1829 Descr. & Hist. Veg. Substances: Timber Trees, & Fruits (Soc. for Diffusion Useful Knowl.) ii. viii. 359 It is a very low tree, or rather a great leafy bush.

1935 Motorboating Jan. 45 Cool, leafy trees.

2014 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 12 Sept. Two pairs of eyes glisten at us through the leafy bushes.

b. Of a place: having a large number of trees, shrubs, or other plants; (of a time of year) characterized by trees, shrubs, etc., being in leaf (see leaf n.¹ 3a). Usually used approvingly, with the suggestion of pleasantness of location or season.

ΚΠ

1595 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Babilon 15 Shepheards in the leaffie verges.

1697 E. Killingworth Poem on Peace concluded between Eng., Spain, Holland & France 3 Now the fierce Child..His nobler, warlike, leafy Ramparts plants.

1736 J. Mawer tr. Oppian Cynegeticks i. 7 In Leafy Spring, and Leaf-shed Autumn's Days.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 30 In the leafy month of June.

1854 Knickerbocker July 82/2 Good-bye to leafy Newbury, And Rowley's hills of pine!

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 6 The leafy lanes behind the down.

1880 F. G. Heath Sylvan Spring ii. 160 The floral beauty of Spring merges, at the end of leafy May, in the splendour of the young summer.

1910 A. R. H. Moncrieff London 33 Along the leafy lanes of Weybridge, on the breezy chaussée of Hampstead Heath, over the turf of Wimbledon.

1942 Manch. Guardian 22 July 4/5 One of the leafy glades in Belgrave Square.

1995 Church Times 25 Aug. 20/3 At Mont-Saint-Michel we arrived at 9 a.m., and climbed almost unjostled to the leafy cloister, with its view over sand and sea.

2012 S. A. Bhaloo Oneness iii. 27 After spring, comes the leafy summer. Orchards, fields and forests are in full bloom.

c. spec. Designating a suburb or part of a city that is pleasantly green and spacious. Now frequently with the additional implication of affluence.

ΚΠ

1863 Duffy's Hibernian Mag. Sept. 227 Leafy suburbs in the evening light.

1892 Irish Times 14 Jan. 5/7 If a railway company were to lop down every lime or laburnum that ventures to send a branch across a telegraph wire, our leafy suburbs would soon be as bare of foliage as the purlieus of Whitechapel.

1962 Guardian 29 June 10/6 There is much disappointment—even anger and shock—in the leafy suburb.

1988 H. Kureishi Sammy & Rosie get Laid in Coll. Screenplays (2002) I. 119 (stage direct.) A leafy North London suburb, tree-lined, sedate, quiet.

1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. v. 6/1 I bought a flat in a new block in a leafy part of Cambridge.

2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 5 July 11 You can buy million-pound homes in the leafy suburbs and minutes later be driving through areas devastated by..deprivation.

2. Made or consisting of leaves. Also of shade: created by the presence of trees.

ΚΠ

1601 W. I. Whipping of Satyre sig. B2 Bankes of shadie mirtild trees,..Whose leafy locks, for more eye-pleasing view, The heauens embalmed with Ambrosiall dewe.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 9 A leafie garland weares he on his head Enchas'd with little fruits, so red and bright.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 33 Ye Trees, whose leafy Shades those mossy Fountains keep.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 235 Autumn..The leafy honours scatt'ring on the ground.

1799 Lady's Mag. Feb. 57/2 The nightingale, affrighted, fled for shelter within her leafy nest.

1835 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 642 There by the well, kept cool with leafy shade.

1870 J. G. Wood Nat. Hist. Man II. 45 As long as possible, the hunter keeps under the shelter of natural cover, but when this is impossible, he takes to his leafy screen, and trusts to it for approaching within range.

1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xi. 93 The orchard was surrounded by high hawthorn hedges, then thick with new leafy clothing and choked with growth of flowering currant.

1979 Gourmet Sept. 96/2 A cool drink in the leafy shade of one of the cafés.

2000 M. Schalesky Cry Freedom xxv. 200 Her voice echoed hollowly against the wide trunk of the oak tree under which she had taken shelter. She lay back in her leafy bed and squeezed her eyes shut.

3. Botany.

a. Of a part of a plant: resembling a leaf; of the nature of or derived from a leaf. Also: of, relating to, producing, or consisting of a leaf or leaves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective]

leafy1629

folious1658

frondose1721

herbaceous1785

foliaceous1816

foliar1875

folial1878

phyllomic1886

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 408 The fruit followeth, being flat at the head, with many leafie shels or scales compassing it.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 119 Every Bud, besides its proper Leaves, is covered with divers Leafy Pannicles or Surfoyls.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Elm It bears a single leav'd Flower..which turns to a membranous or leafy Fruit in the Form of a Heart.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 466 They may form..fronds (expanded leafy surfaces).

1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 66 Flowers... Greenish yellow, appearing with the leaves in umbel-like corymbs from terminal leafy buds and lateral leafless ones.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. v. 97 The leafy tufts removed from the top of the fruits and rejected by the canners are called ‘crowns’.

2015 J. Warren Nature of Crops iii. 55 In hops, the female flowers grow in clusters surrounded by leafy scales, the whole structure being termed a cone or catkin.

b. Bearing leaves; = foliate adj. 3a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > of a stalk, etc.

leafy1662

foliate1676

foliated1721

1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xi. 18/1 A true plant hath a tawy root, a rindy stump, leafy branches, and those commonly armed.

?1785 Earl of Bute Bot. Tables II. 388 Field Gentian. G—campestris. Stems striated, smooth, leafy, from top to bottom.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 115 Flowering stems 3–5 in., lateral, ascending, leafy.

1919 J. N. Martin Bot. for Agric. Students xvi. 421 The leafy plants or gametophores of Moss are not all of the gametophyte.

2005 Flora Neotropica 94 30/1 The indumentum on the leafy twigs and the base of the petiole can be subvillous.

c. Of a tree: broadleaved (broad-leaved adj. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [adjective]

softwood1539

citrean1616

pepperidge1689

purple heart1769

narra1779

leafy1810

saffraan1819

quandong1836

padauk1839

tamanu1839

titoki1842

til1858

odum1887

sapele1904

broad-leaved1905

peroba1920

ocote1926

pyinkado1934

ponderosa1937

ahuehuete1948

Mansonia1958

obeche1958

podo1961

black-gum1969

1810 J. Smith Syst. Mod. Geogr. I. 105 The ornithology of Sweden differs immaterially from that of Norway, except in that, from having more leafy trees, it has a greater abundance of game.

1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia xi. 222 We have many Indian genera of leafy trees, very different from the usual Australian type.

1921 T. Gamble Naval Stores 198/3 The trees..are pines, firs, spruces, larches, and allied species, intermingled here and there with various kinds of birches, aspen, and a few other leafy trees.

2007 PMLA 122 722/1 Contrasting the leafy tree with the pine, he implicitly links leafy trees to the races of southern Europe.

4. Of or with reference to metals, minerals, and other materials: laminate; characterized by the presence of leaflike structures or laminae.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [adjective] > thin

foliated1650

laminated1665

foliate1683

leafy1684

lamellated1713

foliaceousa1728

squamousa1728

lamellose1752

lamellar1794

spathaceous1794

laminous1798

spathose1802

lamellous1803

spathic1803

laminar1811

lamellate1826

laminose1826

laminary1830

lamelliferous1832

laminiferous1834

1684 tr. S. Du Clos Observ. Mineral Waters France 14 After Distillation, or Evaporation..of these Waters, there was made, in the remaining Liquor set in a cold place, any Concretion Saline, Fibrous, Granous, Leafy [Fr. fueïllée], or otherwise figur'd.

1755 W. Lewis in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 668 A leafy or fibrous texture, a purplish colour..are peculiar to the mixtures with lead.

1885 Acct. Strata Northumberland & Durham: F–K (N. Eng. Inst. Mining & Mech. Engineers) 223/1 Leafy clay, with scares of sand.

1987 J. H. Nelson et al. in J. W. Patterson & R. Passino Metals Speciation, Separation, & Recovery 132 The PbS precipitated in an octahedral shape rather than the leafy crystals as observed in the individual tests.

2012 K. Albala Three World Cuisines iii. 108 The pasta sfloglia comprising leafy sheets..is more akin to Greek filo dough.

Compounds

C1.

leafy-branched adj. now rare

ΚΠ

1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 518 Leafy-branched Spurge.

1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1422/1 [Potentilla] Nepalensis, Hook... Clothed with long, soft, spreading hairs, leafy-branched.

1946 Lexington Leaflets (Lexington (Mass.) Bot. Garden) 13 Apr. 3 If the leafy stem is branched (as with most annuals, Gypsophila or Aster), with true leaves on the side shoots as well as flowers, that plant is leafy branched.

C2.

leafy green n. (usually in plural) a green leafy vegetable used for food, typically eaten raw; cf. green n.¹ 6d.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > other leaves

nettle top?1585

lettuce1597

green food1658

peppergrass1696

Welsh onion1731

lamb's quarter1773

Shawnee salad1780

puha1843

poke greens1848

rauriki1848

swede greens1887

swede tops1887

lettuce green1900

leafy greena1918

rapini1959

a1918 F. N. Meyer Let. in Plant Immigrants (1919) No. 142. 1286 Of all the leafy greens, the Chinese love especially those belonging to the cabbage and mustard group.

1959 K. E. Webb Geogr. Food Supply Central Minas Gerais iv. 39 It was common..for a few plants of couvé (a leafy green) to be tended in the same quintal.

1990 Financial Times 18 Aug. (Weekend FT section) p. xi/7 Another cheesy possibility is shredded lettuce and other leafy greens lightly scattered with crumbled Stilton.

2014 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 Nov. 45 Every meal consisted of good olive oil, lots of leafy greens, grains and beautiful meats.

leafy liverwort n. any liverwort having differentiated stems and leaves.

ΚΠ

1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 457 Lichen foliis suberectis laciniatis crispis scyphiferis... Anglis, Leafy Liverwort.

1863 Pop. Sci. Rev. July 494 We find interlacing amongst them [sc. the mosses] the familiar branches of the J. Asplenoides, the largest and most frequent of the Leafy Liverworts.

1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 40 For convenience, the Leafy Liverworts are here treated with the Mosses, which they superficially resemble.

2002 Northern Woodlands Spring 28 Moss leaves commonly have a midrib; leafy liverworts never have a midrib.

leafy sea dragon n. a slender marine fish, Phycodurus eques (family Syngnathidae, related to seahorses), which has several long leaf-like appendages giving it a resemblance to floating seaweed and is found off the coasts of southern Australia.

ΚΠ

1882 F. McCoy Nat. Hist. Victoria I. Pl. 65 (heading) Phyllopteryx foliatus (Shaw sp.). The Leafy Sea-Dragon.

1960 Copeia No. 1. 78/1 There are chapters on leafy sea dragons, [and] on links between pipefishes and seahorses.

2010 Independent 27 May 20/4 (caption) Weedy, pictured, and leafy sea dragons will be displayed at the National Sea Life Centre.

leafy spurge n. a perennial spurge with a branching habit, Euphorbia esula, probably native to southern Europe but introduced elsewhere, sometimes becoming a troublesome weed.

ΚΠ

1858 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora 460 Leafy spurge. Euphorbia Esula, Linn... A glabrous perennial, readily distinguished from all the preceding species by the terminal umbel.

1923 Sci. Monthly Aug. 123 The case of leafy spurge is difficult to explain satisfactorily. It was found in North Dakota for the first time in 1909.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) i. 55 Leafy Spurge is at present less widespread than knapweed but much harder to control.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leafy
释义	leafyadj. Brit. /ˈliːfi/, U.S. /ˈlifi/ Forms: see leaf n.¹ and -y suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: leaf n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < leaf n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier leavy adj., and also earlier leaved adj.Compare German laubig, †laubicht having many leaves or much foliage (first half of the 16th cent. as †laubecht). 1. a. Having many leaves or much foliage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] in (full) leafOE leavedc1300 leavy?1440 leafya1522 leavish1530 leafed1552 fronded1640 folious1658 foliaceous1676 frondent1677 furnished1712 foliose1727 leaf-strewn1730 foliaged1816 foliiferous1828 frondous1828 frondiparous1866 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. i. l. 35 A lenȝe watry garmond dyd hym vaill,..And leiffy redis dekkis weill hys haris. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Leaffy, or ful of leaues. 1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxxvi. f. 241v My daughter..had hid her selfe behind a thick leafie brake. 1681 T. Delaune & B. Keach Τροπολογία i. 139 Thou hast been like a green and leafy Olive, which most beautifully flourishes, giving extraordinary hope of its Fruit. 1721 S. Croxall in Fair Circassian (ed. 2) 49 Sunny Beams here pierc'd the leafy Trees. 1784 F. Forbes Mod. Improvem. Agric. (new ed.) xiii. 192 Thick sowing of clover, and other grasses, makes small leafy plants. 1829 Descr. & Hist. Veg. Substances: Timber Trees, & Fruits (Soc. for Diffusion Useful Knowl.) ii. viii. 359 It is a very low tree, or rather a great leafy bush. 1935 Motorboating Jan. 45 Cool, leafy trees. 2014 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 12 Sept. Two pairs of eyes glisten at us through the leafy bushes. b. Of a place: having a large number of trees, shrubs, or other plants; (of a time of year) characterized by trees, shrubs, etc., being in leaf (see leaf n.¹ 3a). Usually used approvingly, with the suggestion of pleasantness of location or season. ΚΠ 1595 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Babilon 15 Shepheards in the leaffie verges. 1697 E. Killingworth Poem on Peace concluded between Eng., Spain, Holland & France 3 Now the fierce Child..His nobler, warlike, leafy Ramparts plants. 1736 J. Mawer tr. Oppian Cynegeticks i. 7 In Leafy Spring, and Leaf-shed Autumn's Days. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 30 In the leafy month of June. 1854 Knickerbocker July 82/2 Good-bye to leafy Newbury, And Rowley's hills of pine! 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 6 The leafy lanes behind the down. 1880 F. G. Heath Sylvan Spring ii. 160 The floral beauty of Spring merges, at the end of leafy May, in the splendour of the young summer. 1910 A. R. H. Moncrieff London 33 Along the leafy lanes of Weybridge, on the breezy chaussée of Hampstead Heath, over the turf of Wimbledon. 1942 Manch. Guardian 22 July 4/5 One of the leafy glades in Belgrave Square. 1995 Church Times 25 Aug. 20/3 At Mont-Saint-Michel we arrived at 9 a.m., and climbed almost unjostled to the leafy cloister, with its view over sand and sea. 2012 S. A. Bhaloo Oneness iii. 27 After spring, comes the leafy summer. Orchards, fields and forests are in full bloom. c. spec. Designating a suburb or part of a city that is pleasantly green and spacious. Now frequently with the additional implication of affluence. ΚΠ 1863 Duffy's Hibernian Mag. Sept. 227 Leafy suburbs in the evening light. 1892 Irish Times 14 Jan. 5/7 If a railway company were to lop down every lime or laburnum that ventures to send a branch across a telegraph wire, our leafy suburbs would soon be as bare of foliage as the purlieus of Whitechapel. 1962 Guardian 29 June 10/6 There is much disappointment—even anger and shock—in the leafy suburb. 1988 H. Kureishi Sammy & Rosie get Laid in Coll. Screenplays (2002) I. 119 (stage direct.) A leafy North London suburb, tree-lined, sedate, quiet. 1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. v. 6/1 I bought a flat in a new block in a leafy part of Cambridge. 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 5 July 11 You can buy million-pound homes in the leafy suburbs and minutes later be driving through areas devastated by..deprivation. 2. Made or consisting of leaves. Also of shade: created by the presence of trees. ΚΠ 1601 W. I. Whipping of Satyre sig. B2 Bankes of shadie mirtild trees,..Whose leafy locks, for more eye-pleasing view, The heauens embalmed with Ambrosiall dewe. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 9 A leafie garland weares he on his head Enchas'd with little fruits, so red and bright. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 33 Ye Trees, whose leafy Shades those mossy Fountains keep. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 235 Autumn..The leafy honours scatt'ring on the ground. 1799 Lady's Mag. Feb. 57/2 The nightingale, affrighted, fled for shelter within her leafy nest. 1835 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 642 There by the well, kept cool with leafy shade. 1870 J. G. Wood Nat. Hist. Man II. 45 As long as possible, the hunter keeps under the shelter of natural cover, but when this is impossible, he takes to his leafy screen, and trusts to it for approaching within range. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xi. 93 The orchard was surrounded by high hawthorn hedges, then thick with new leafy clothing and choked with growth of flowering currant. 1979 Gourmet Sept. 96/2 A cool drink in the leafy shade of one of the cafés. 2000 M. Schalesky Cry Freedom xxv. 200 Her voice echoed hollowly against the wide trunk of the oak tree under which she had taken shelter. She lay back in her leafy bed and squeezed her eyes shut. 3. Botany. a. Of a part of a plant: resembling a leaf; of the nature of or derived from a leaf. Also: of, relating to, producing, or consisting of a leaf or leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] leafy1629 folious1658 frondose1721 herbaceous1785 foliaceous1816 foliar1875 folial1878 phyllomic1886 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 408 The fruit followeth, being flat at the head, with many leafie shels or scales compassing it. 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 119 Every Bud, besides its proper Leaves, is covered with divers Leafy Pannicles or Surfoyls. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Elm It bears a single leav'd Flower..which turns to a membranous or leafy Fruit in the Form of a Heart. 1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 466 They may form..fronds (expanded leafy surfaces). 1900 H. L. Keeler Our Native Trees 66 Flowers... Greenish yellow, appearing with the leaves in umbel-like corymbs from terminal leafy buds and lateral leafless ones. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. v. 97 The leafy tufts removed from the top of the fruits and rejected by the canners are called ‘crowns’. 2015 J. Warren Nature of Crops iii. 55 In hops, the female flowers grow in clusters surrounded by leafy scales, the whole structure being termed a cone or catkin. b. Bearing leaves; = foliate adj. 3a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > of a stalk, etc. leafy1662 foliate1676 foliated1721 1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xi. 18/1 A true plant hath a tawy root, a rindy stump, leafy branches, and those commonly armed. ?1785 Earl of Bute Bot. Tables II. 388 Field Gentian. G—campestris. Stems striated, smooth, leafy, from top to bottom. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 115 Flowering stems 3–5 in., lateral, ascending, leafy. 1919 J. N. Martin Bot. for Agric. Students xvi. 421 The leafy plants or gametophores of Moss are not all of the gametophyte. 2005 Flora Neotropica 94 30/1 The indumentum on the leafy twigs and the base of the petiole can be subvillous. c. Of a tree: broadleaved (broad-leaved adj. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [adjective] softwood1539 citrean1616 pepperidge1689 purple heart1769 narra1779 leafy1810 saffraan1819 quandong1836 padauk1839 tamanu1839 titoki1842 til1858 odum1887 sapele1904 broad-leaved1905 peroba1920 ocote1926 pyinkado1934 ponderosa1937 ahuehuete1948 Mansonia1958 obeche1958 podo1961 black-gum1969 1810 J. Smith Syst. Mod. Geogr. I. 105 The ornithology of Sweden differs immaterially from that of Norway, except in that, from having more leafy trees, it has a greater abundance of game. 1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia xi. 222 We have many Indian genera of leafy trees, very different from the usual Australian type. 1921 T. Gamble Naval Stores 198/3 The trees..are pines, firs, spruces, larches, and allied species, intermingled here and there with various kinds of birches, aspen, and a few other leafy trees. 2007 PMLA 122 722/1 Contrasting the leafy tree with the pine, he implicitly links leafy trees to the races of southern Europe. 4. Of or with reference to metals, minerals, and other materials: laminate; characterized by the presence of leaflike structures or laminae. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [adjective] > thin foliated1650 laminated1665 foliate1683 leafy1684 lamellated1713 foliaceousa1728 squamousa1728 lamellose1752 lamellar1794 spathaceous1794 laminous1798 spathose1802 lamellous1803 spathic1803 laminar1811 lamellate1826 laminose1826 laminary1830 lamelliferous1832 laminiferous1834 1684 tr. S. Du Clos Observ. Mineral Waters France 14 After Distillation, or Evaporation..of these Waters, there was made, in the remaining Liquor set in a cold place, any Concretion Saline, Fibrous, Granous, Leafy [Fr. fueïllée], or otherwise figur'd. 1755 W. Lewis in Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 668 A leafy or fibrous texture, a purplish colour..are peculiar to the mixtures with lead. 1885 Acct. Strata Northumberland & Durham: F–K (N. Eng. Inst. Mining & Mech. Engineers) 223/1 Leafy clay, with scares of sand. 1987 J. H. Nelson et al. in J. W. Patterson & R. Passino Metals Speciation, Separation, & Recovery 132 The PbS precipitated in an octahedral shape rather than the leafy crystals as observed in the individual tests. 2012 K. Albala Three World Cuisines iii. 108 The pasta sfloglia comprising leafy sheets..is more akin to Greek filo dough. Compounds C1. leafy-branched adj. now rare ΚΠ 1800 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica II. 518 Leafy-branched Spurge. 1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1422/1 [Potentilla] Nepalensis, Hook... Clothed with long, soft, spreading hairs, leafy-branched. 1946 Lexington Leaflets (Lexington (Mass.) Bot. Garden) 13 Apr. 3 If the leafy stem is branched (as with most annuals, Gypsophila or Aster), with true leaves on the side shoots as well as flowers, that plant is leafy branched. C2. leafy green n. (usually in plural) a green leafy vegetable used for food, typically eaten raw; cf. green n.¹ 6d. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > other leaves nettle top?1585 lettuce1597 green food1658 peppergrass1696 Welsh onion1731 lamb's quarter1773 Shawnee salad1780 puha1843 poke greens1848 rauriki1848 swede greens1887 swede tops1887 lettuce green1900 leafy greena1918 rapini1959 a1918 F. N. Meyer Let. in Plant Immigrants (1919) No. 142. 1286 Of all the leafy greens, the Chinese love especially those belonging to the cabbage and mustard group. 1959 K. E. Webb Geogr. Food Supply Central Minas Gerais iv. 39 It was common..for a few plants of couvé (a leafy green) to be tended in the same quintal. 1990 Financial Times 18 Aug. (Weekend FT section) p. xi/7 Another cheesy possibility is shredded lettuce and other leafy greens lightly scattered with crumbled Stilton. 2014 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 Nov. 45 Every meal consisted of good olive oil, lots of leafy greens, grains and beautiful meats. leafy liverwort n. any liverwort having differentiated stems and leaves. ΚΠ 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 457 Lichen foliis suberectis laciniatis crispis scyphiferis... Anglis, Leafy Liverwort. 1863 Pop. Sci. Rev. July 494 We find interlacing amongst them [sc. the mosses] the familiar branches of the J. Asplenoides, the largest and most frequent of the Leafy Liverworts. 1957 Fassett's Man. Aquatic Plants (rev. ed.) 40 For convenience, the Leafy Liverworts are here treated with the Mosses, which they superficially resemble. 2002 Northern Woodlands Spring 28 Moss leaves commonly have a midrib; leafy liverworts never have a midrib. leafy sea dragon n. a slender marine fish, Phycodurus eques (family Syngnathidae, related to seahorses), which has several long leaf-like appendages giving it a resemblance to floating seaweed and is found off the coasts of southern Australia. ΚΠ 1882 F. McCoy Nat. Hist. Victoria I. Pl. 65 (heading) Phyllopteryx foliatus (Shaw sp.). The Leafy Sea-Dragon. 1960 Copeia No. 1. 78/1 There are chapters on leafy sea dragons, [and] on links between pipefishes and seahorses. 2010 Independent 27 May 20/4 (caption) Weedy, pictured, and leafy sea dragons will be displayed at the National Sea Life Centre. leafy spurge n. a perennial spurge with a branching habit, Euphorbia esula, probably native to southern Europe but introduced elsewhere, sometimes becoming a troublesome weed. ΚΠ 1858 G. Bentham Handbk. Brit. Flora 460 Leafy spurge. Euphorbia Esula, Linn... A glabrous perennial, readily distinguished from all the preceding species by the terminal umbel. 1923 Sci. Monthly Aug. 123 The case of leafy spurge is difficult to explain satisfactorily. It was found in North Dakota for the first time in 1909. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) i. 55 Leafy Spurge is at present less widespread than knapweed but much harder to control. 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