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What is the noun for leafy?

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leaf
  1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  3. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
  4. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
  5. (plural) Tea leaves.
  6. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  7. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
  8. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  9. (computing) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
  10. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
  11. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “The ants may find access to a tree by way of a blade of grass which comes in contact with a leaf of the tree momentarily stirred by the wind.”
      “It appeared to have been written between lines ruled with ink upon the last blank leaf of the book.”
      “This is done by placing a thick leaf of silver and a much thinner leaf of gold one upon the other.”
leaflitter
  1. Dead plant material, such as leaves, bark, and twigs, that has fallen to the ground and may be used by animals as habitat or for nest-building.
leafwork
  1. Any design or structure resembling leaves or the pattern of leaves; foliage
  2. Examples:
    1. “If the leafwork on the helm were tossed up backward, it would hide the fillet.”
      “The legs are of the heavy bulbous type common at this time, turned in the cup and cover form, and carved with nullings and acanthus leafwork.”
leafling
  1. A small, tiny, miniature, or immature leaf; a leaflet.
leafage
  1. The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The lotus blossom and leafage carving on the splat and stay-rail are of a distinctively high quality.”
      “The narcissus fly lays its eggs in the leafage of the just sprung narcissus bulb between the midst of May and the end of June.”
      “The plants are capable of accumulating high quantities of contaminants in their stems and leafage.”
leafstalk
  1. The stalk that supports a leaf and connects it to the plant.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The leafstalk of the fern was long and slender, gracefully connecting the vibrant green leaf to the rest of the plant.”
      “The leafstalk would stand up and everything would restore to the original appearance.”
      “Stalk lengths shredded in the transverse direction of the leafstalk do not give rise to any problems and need not be removed.”
leafful
  1. The amount or measure held by a leaf.
leafet
  1. (botany) A little leaf; a leaflet.
leafing
  1. The act of one who leafs through something.
leafiness
  1. The state or condition of being leafy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Its reassuring vegetableness, its green leafiness, the way it looked natural on a farm, spoke to our deep cabbagey values.”
      “Meanwhile, the sharpening air threshes the veteran bronze leafiness of the oaks and strips the pines, fretful in the breeze, of their needles.”
      “Lots of dark, ripe fruit on the nose with cedar wood and a slight greeny leafiness.”
leaflessness
  1. The property of being leafless.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The tree's leaflessness made it look scrawny, though in summer it seemed full and bushy.”
leafery
leafstalks
leafinesses
leaflings
  1. plural of leafling
leafworks
  1. plural of leafwork
leaffuls
  1. plural of leafful
leafings
  1. plural of leafing
leafages
leafets
  1. plural of leafet
leaves
leafs
  1. (nonstandard) plural of leaf
leaves
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