A fully leafed tree. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a rose leaf. ,silver leaf. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to leaf through a book. From Dictionary.com.
Tod – Turned wood with a segment of its grain leafed in pure 24-karat gold. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Candle Holders by Jean Pelle] Reference
Slowly detail leafed from the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [54 entries from September 2006] Reference
He demanded my passport, leafed roughly through it. From Wordnik.com. [Roadblocks and Riots] Reference
(I have the book but so far have only leafed through it.). From Wordnik.com. [F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities] Reference
Ancestral elms over-leafed the roof on the southern side. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
He leafed through the volume, noting the careful engrossing. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Made Plans] Reference
He leafed through the pages, reluctant to send the hated message. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
He leafed it through, and examined one of the plates with interest. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
As he straightened up he glimpsed something under a broad-leafed plant. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
The cave's mouth overhung with lianas and broad-leafed hothouse plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 40: Crusin'] Reference
He must have found the stack of fashion magazines and leafed through them. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference
Out on the patio there are all these kind of thin leafed green plants coming up. From Wordnik.com. [Messages from Upstate] Reference
The shacks were always hidden from view when the trees leafed out in the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Traster: One's Man's Hubris Is Another Man's Flood] Reference
The walks under the thick-leafed elms were thronged with talking, laughing groups. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
There is hardly any more valuable tree in Central Europe than the purple leafed hazel. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference
No breath of wind came to stir the heavily leafed trees, no sound broke the stillness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
It is one of the cut-leafed varieties of walnut from California that he is propagating. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
There is a little round-leafed plant common in Florida and, apparently, found in the north. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
They're marching around in Versace robes, waving gold-leafed signs warning the end is near. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Bail On Falling Bonds] Reference
He leafed through the newspaper slowly, pulling thoughtfully at his beard from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
Dr. Manelli looked away sharply, and leafed through the thick sheaf of chart papers in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Door] Reference
In the van on the way to a campaign event, he dozed and lazily leafed through "Lincoln on Leadership.". From Wordnik.com. [Testing Ground] Reference
He leafed through the sketchbooks quickly, vexed not to find any dates or notes. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
A second shot missed completely as she dove into the park and rolled into a stand of purple-leafed bushes. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
He sat straight in his chair waiting attentively while his superior across the desk leafed through a folder. From Wordnik.com. [The Stutterer] Reference
Big-leafed tropical plants in variegated and green forms brush your hand as you enter the house from the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Green Scene: A Japanese garden's natural serenity] Reference
They were respectively marked on the large tree next the Falls, a large broad-leafed tree, arrow at 1 o'clock LFE. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
I leafed through some newspapers and magazines, surfed through a few blogs and landed on Double X, a blog on Slate. From Wordnik.com. [Story pick: Confronting cancer] Reference
Amid a growth of tropical luxuriance stand glossy-leafed orange trees laden with fragrant blossoms and golden fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
Broadview Persian walnut, and after it leafed out it looked as if a fire had gone through it because of the dead wood. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
Boyd leafed through them slowly, stopping every now and again to consult a page, until he found what he was looking for. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
I also have a young tree growing that is apparently larger leafed and with thicker shoots than even Juglans cordiformis. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference
Its bed pretty well the whole way across is wooded with the paper-like barked, narrow-leafed tree, and a few other shrubs. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
As Mike shows me where to work, I comment on aSalvia argentea, a huge, hairy-leafed, silver plant now at its rosette stage. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
"On the other hand --" Malone leafed through the papers in a hurry, then put them back on Boyd's desk with a sigh of relief. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
She opened the clasp and leafed through some buttons, and things and pulled out an old yellowed letter folded up in a square. From Wordnik.com. [Folded Flower] Reference
Carpathians leafed out and were about ready to bloom when there was a sharp freeze, and the Carpathians sure got it in the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
As a mother, I was nearly heartbroken when I leafed through catalogs of expensive toys I could not afford to buy for my children. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
He sat on the end of the couch with the manual on his knees and leafed through it, smoothing it open at a page of physical measurements. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
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