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leafy

adjective as in abundant in foliage

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When they’re done they go into the soup along with tiny pasta — orzo or ditalini or whatever you’d like — and lots of chopped leafy greens.

Maybe they’re short and stubby, or not as leafy as you’d like.

Soups can certainly be rich in their own right, so we’ve selected brothier fare filled with beans and lentils as well as nutrient-rich dark leafy greens and bright carrots.

It is the sunshine that shows the leafy colors to its best advantage.

So far, Bowery has built three large farms and focused on producing leafy greens and fresh herbs for supermarket chains like Whole Foods and Stop & Shop.

From Fortune

It looks like the shoot-out at the OK Corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.

On the streets you will come across many young people wearing clothes with leafy designs.

The salmon is presented atop a mound of sautéed vegetables: mushrooms, peppers, squash, onions, leafy greens, and herbs.

“During the dry season, women ate more green leafy vegetables,” Prentice said.

All the rapid fire no doubt jangles his neighbors on North Happ Road in the leafy village of Northfield.

There was a garden out in the suburbs; a small, leafy corner, with a few green tables under the orange trees.

"That longest, leafy branch touches the very wall of my room," she went on, creeping always a little down the hill.

A green gloom reigned there; it was the still hour of noon; the little birds were quiet in some leafy shade.

On he went, therefore, till he saw under the hedge a leafy arch over a drain, and he thought that he could pass through it.

Then he floated upward until he reached the leafy dome, and parting the branches he disappeared from sight.

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

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