leafiness

• “But the landscape, in its first sweet leafiness, is so alive with ploughing and sowing and all the natural tasks of spring, that the war scars seem like traces of a long-past woe; and it was not till a bend of the road brought us in sight of Gerbéviller that we breathed again the choking air of present horror.”

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• “He rode a wave, and Repubs controlled the government, and laurel-bestowing ceremonies were held to bestew his brow with honorific leafiness.”

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• “During the winter this lush leafiness is not apparent, although a few leaves do remain, turning darker and more leathery with the cold.”

  Pyracanthas « Fairegarden

• “Well, it is a type of Artemisia, commonly called wormwood one species of which is also known as Absinthe, and it is used in herbal preparations and Asian cuisine – in fact, one of my favorite foods is buckwheat Soba flavored with the fresh leafiness of Mugwort, which gives a really interesting greenish tint to the noodles.”

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• “So I resolved to turn over a new leaf and on Saturday the leafiness began.”

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• “Since my version had decidedly more cilantro leafiness showing than the original version, I'm calling it Tomato and Cilantro Soup.”

  Tomato and Cilantro Soup Recipe

• “The forest, through which we were slowly toiling, daily became more dense, and we were kept almost constantly at work with the axe; there was much more leafiness in the trees here than farther south.”

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• “His first gift, brought the week following, when the buds of the maples and alders had gone from a button-like solidity to the particulate leafiness of tiny cabbages, was a cloisonné pendant in the form of a peacock, the spread tail a fan in whose center the neck and body of shimmering blue stood out against the proud spread of green feathers eyed in yellow and black.”

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• “The extent of reduction depends on the height, time to maturity, and leafiness of the maize.”

  5: Farming systems and gardening techniques

• “Differences in salt resistance, salt content, drought resistance, leafiness, and palatability have been observed within populations of many of these shrub species.”

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