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leafy
CIDE DICTIONARY
leafy, a.
- Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest. Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of leaves. Byron. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
leafy, adj. (leafier, leafiest)
1 having many leaves.
2 resembling a leaf.
1 having many leaves.
2 resembling a leaf.
Derivative
leafiness n.
THESAURUS
leafy
aestival, arborescent, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, bosky, bowery, branched, branching, branchy, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, filmy, foliaceous, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, in layers, ivy, ivy-green, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leaved, leavy, membranous, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, ramate, ramified, ramose, ramous, scummy, shaded, shady, smaragdine, spathic, spathose, springlike, stratified, stratiform, summerlike, summery, three-ply, twiggy, two-ply, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, woody, yellowish-greenROGET THESAURUS
leafy
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.For further exploring for "leafy" in Webster Dictionary Online