leafy
part of speech
adjective (leafy, leafier, leafiest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Having lots of leaves: «a leafy tree». tree →
2) (of a place) With many trees and gardens, green and pleasant: «a leafy street». tree →
3) (of vegetables) Eaten as leaves: «leafy greens». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A leafy tree was a tree where people worshipped idols. Interpretation: The Torah orders Israel to destroy these places, and tradition reads this as a warning against idol worship. In the primary lessons: In health lessons: leafy green vegetables (spinach, lettuce, kale, cabbage) are full of vitamins. In geography and stories: «a leafy suburb» suggests a quiet, green, comfortable area. In science: leafy plants need light for photosynthesis.
examples
- Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree. (Torah DEU.12.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy. (Writings SNG.1.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy. (Writings JOB.15.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree; (Prophets 2KI.17.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- We walked down a leafy lane. tree →
- Eat your leafy greens like spinach and lettuce. tree →
- The leafy branches gave us shade. tree →
- They live in a leafy part of town. tree →
- The leafiest tree in the park is the old oak. tree →
- Caterpillars love leafy plants. tree →
- Overgrown with thistles and rank weeds, in the centre of which a leafy lime tree reared itself. tree →
note
Comparative: leafier, leafiest (y → i). From leaf + -y. Plural of leaf is leaves (not «leafs»), but the adjective is leafy.
In the corpora
- For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
- And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
- and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
- Like the symbols of their sons are their altars, and their Asherim are by the leafy trees, upon the high hills.
- I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a leafy tree in its native soil.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «leafy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.