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leafy

[lee-fee] / ˈli fi /
ADJECTIVE
abundant in foliage
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Obsessive about details in his restaurants and home, he asked me to enter his house through his gym instead of the front door, because it has the best view spanning the leafy estate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The lush greenery in the leafy inner courtyard will be replaced with plants more closely related to those of the late Pleistocene, such as cypress and toyon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The Rodgers’ elegant Victorian Craftsman measures just over 5,300 square feet—just over half the size of Aaron’s enormous 10,500-square-foot Wisconsin abode, which sits at the heart of a leafy 5-acre parcel.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

In Shomera, a leafy town at the western end of the border, drone attacks have left trails of fibre-optic wires along the roads – and a new sense of fear in this battle-hardened community.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

They were now, with the benefit of the manure, growing tall and leafy and showing hard little green tomatoes.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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