"leavy" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more leavy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most leavy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "leavy (comparative more leavy, superlative most leavy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "leafy"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "leaviness"
        },
        {
          "word": "leavy greens"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh: Canto 2, page 20",
          "text": "Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade,\nWith sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head,\nThe mountains ring with their repeated strokes;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Cookery Course, Piatkus, page 224",
          "text": "Put a good bunch of leavy herbs, such as basil, marjoram, dill, tarragon and parsley into the blender or processor and process for a few moments until roughly chopped, then add the butter, garlic and seasoning and continue as above.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Glorious New Zealand Gardens, Premier Books",
          "text": "While painted rails give you the impression that you are crossing a bridge and winding paths provide coherence to the shade lover’s garden, where white painted ladies shelter in the leavy coolness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Margaret Thomson Davis, A Kind of Immortality, London: Century, page 192",
          "text": "A low road ran off Queen Margaret Drive, where the BBC was situated, and alongside the leavy, tree-lined Botanic Gardens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 May 30, “Fruits and veggies may protect against stroke”, in Regina Sun, page 38, column 2",
          "text": "Folic acid is found in grains and certain dark green leavy vegetables.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anita Bean, The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, 4th edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, page 61",
          "text": "Antioxidant / Folate | Food source / Spinach, broccoli, curly kale, green cabbage and other green leavy vegetables",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 5, Fair Craig Hash, “Ci et Ca Avec Belle”, in The Rayne Acadian-Tribune, 114th year, number 25, Rayne, La., page 9, column 3",
          "text": "Homing birds nesting in tall, leavy trees / In splendor performing their rare symphonies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 August 11, Teddy Allen, “It’s not the heat, it’s … wait; it IS the heat!”, in The Times, volume 148, number 257, page 4D, column 4",
          "text": "I thought the canna needed sun but they’re rowed up head-high in the shade along the back fence like a tall line of leavy green soldiers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of leafy."
      ],
      "id": "en-leavy-en-adj-P73fMGXv",
      "links": [
        [
          "leafy",
          "leafy#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leavy"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "leaviness"
    },
    {
      "word": "leavy greens"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more leavy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most leavy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "leavy (comparative more leavy, superlative most leavy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "leafy"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh: Canto 2, page 20",
          "text": "Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade,\nWith sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head,\nThe mountains ring with their repeated strokes;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Cookery Course, Piatkus, page 224",
          "text": "Put a good bunch of leavy herbs, such as basil, marjoram, dill, tarragon and parsley into the blender or processor and process for a few moments until roughly chopped, then add the butter, garlic and seasoning and continue as above.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Glorious New Zealand Gardens, Premier Books",
          "text": "While painted rails give you the impression that you are crossing a bridge and winding paths provide coherence to the shade lover’s garden, where white painted ladies shelter in the leavy coolness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Margaret Thomson Davis, A Kind of Immortality, London: Century, page 192",
          "text": "A low road ran off Queen Margaret Drive, where the BBC was situated, and alongside the leavy, tree-lined Botanic Gardens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 May 30, “Fruits and veggies may protect against stroke”, in Regina Sun, page 38, column 2",
          "text": "Folic acid is found in grains and certain dark green leavy vegetables.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Anita Bean, The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, 4th edition, Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, page 61",
          "text": "Antioxidant / Folate | Food source / Spinach, broccoli, curly kale, green cabbage and other green leavy vegetables",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 5, Fair Craig Hash, “Ci et Ca Avec Belle”, in The Rayne Acadian-Tribune, 114th year, number 25, Rayne, La., page 9, column 3",
          "text": "Homing birds nesting in tall, leavy trees / In splendor performing their rare symphonies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 August 11, Teddy Allen, “It’s not the heat, it’s … wait; it IS the heat!”, in The Times, volume 148, number 257, page 4D, column 4",
          "text": "I thought the canna needed sun but they’re rowed up head-high in the shade along the back fence like a tall line of leavy green soldiers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of leafy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "leafy",
          "leafy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leavy"
}