Definitions for leafy

leafy leaf·y

Spelling: [lee-fee]
IPA: /ˈli fi/

Leafy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in leafy (aefly).

Definitions for leafy

adjective

  1. having, abounding in, or covered with leaves or foliage:
  2. having broad leaves or consisting mainly of leaves:
  3. leaflike; foliaceous.

Origin of leafy

First recorded in 1545-55; leaf + -y1

Examples for leafy

She would—she must—know what he was saying to his companion in that leafy bower.

Too great vigor is indicated by long, leafy, unbranching shoots.

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

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

Other little paths led from the clearing into leafy recesses.

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

Into it he dropped the ring, covering it again with all the leafy "rubble and wreck" of the wood.

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

Brigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia.

How far above me seemed that leafy cloudland into which I gazed!

Word Value for leafy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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