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leafy

adjective as in abundant in foliage

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We're waiting on a housing estate in a leafy suburb where most of the houses have perfectly-maintained front lawns and expensive cars on the drives.

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In a quiet, leafy suburb of Toronto, a 30-year-old Afghan woman spends most afternoons on the phone, hoping she can reach her two younger siblings and father.

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Given the cost of living and the polarised politics in the US, the draw of the leafy streets of Condesa is obvious.

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Monmouth Rising was due to be held on a leafy showground outside the Welsh border town - a space more used to hosting Saturday morning car boot sales than festivals with five stages.

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With a killer still on the loose, many fled the leafy town of 25,000 residents, which had not seen a murder for five years.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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