(superl) Full of leaves; abounding in leaves; as, the leafy forest.
(superl) Consisting of leaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just drink it straight away, rather than storing it in the fridge, and bear in mind "they're not as good at juicing leafy greens, so you'll need to juice more to get the same volume."
(2) Reproducibility of placing a dietary factor into a particular quintile of consumption was good for most foods, but it was lowest for cruciferous and leafy green vegetables.
(3) Meanwhile, what amounts to a centrally imposed freeze on council tax rises means owners of homes in the leafy suburbs are paying not a penny more.
(4) This week, nearly 200 people gathered around a backyard pool in Bedford, New Hampshire, a leafy and well-to-do suburb of Manchester.
(5) Growth rate, nitrogen balance, skeletal muscle nitrogen fractions and in vivo intestinal absorption of D-galactose (2 mM) and L-leucine (20 mM) have been measured in male growing rats (90-100 g initial body weight) fed 12% protein diets containing either casein (control) or the raw leafy legume Chamaecytisus proliferus L. (Western Canary Islands).
(6) From one, a patient can look out over a quiet valley in Somerset, from the other, leafy southern Birmingham and the Clee Hills beyond.
(7) Instead it runs through university faculties and the leafy suburbs of north Tehran where Iran's academic elite make their homes.
(8) SEM observations showed the lyophilised plug structure of rapidly frozen material consisted of a fine amorphous meshwork, while material frozen slowly consisted of a leafy amorphous material.
(9) Choices have consequences and austerity is not good at hiding them: be it the children in the communities where low pay and benefit cuts have pushed more than half into poverty , or food bank signs among leafy, red-brick mansions .
(10) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
(11) The main source of fluoride intake was from beer and green leafy vegetables.
(12) The average value of Tb obtained by the experiments at the dough and yellow ripe stages was about 200 d. This value is considerably larger than those for pasture grass and leafy vegetables.
(13) It's a glorious spring afternoon in south London's leafy Richmond and we are lounging in sunlight in an old-fashioned hotel bar.
(14) Dr Anurag Bishnoi runs a private clinic in the leafy back streets of Hisar.
(15) No need to seek some hard-pressed spot, just look at leafy, luxuriant Surrey.
(16) These included preference for consuming drinks or soups at high temperature (AR = 14%), infrequent consumption of green leafy vegetables (AR = 15%) and citrus fruits (AR = 26%), ingestion of pickled vegetables (AR = 29%), tobacco smoking (AR = 44%), and alcohol drinking (AR = 48%).
(17) We climb past a leafy clearing full of bee hives, then we’re into the woods, scrambling upwards to clifftop views over the shining sea.
(18) He was born in the leafy Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym to David Norfolk and Gill Garrett.
(19) The same charge could easily have been made against not only the socialism of the Webbs but also that of Marx and Engels – who lived near these leafy lanes – or more recently of the Hampstead salons for the fellow travellers of Eric Hobsbawm or Ralph Miliband or Michael Foot.
(20) Doubles from £56, B&B Hotel Solar das Águas Cantantes, Ubatuba, São Paulo Set in verdant grounds on a winding stretch of coast and backed by postcard-perfect peaks, this colonial affair offers 20 austere rooms wrapped around a leafy courtyard.
Leaky
Definition:
(superl.) Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.
(superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is therefore suggested that salt water adaptation triggers a cellular reorganization of the epithelium in such a way that leaky junctions (a low resistance pathway) appear at the apex of the chloride cells.
(2) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(3) No net synthesis of ATP was demonstrated in leaky vesicles.
(4) Results indicated that the synthesis of both core and pol proteins was concomitantly reduced in these three conditions, which suggested that leaky scanning is the most probable mechanism for pol protein synthesis in vitro.
(5) One possibility is that the membrane of dystrophic muscle is weakened and becomes leaky to Ca2+.
(6) A combination of the leaky-patch and doughnut models may represent the most likely mechanism.
(7) Interstitial cystitis patients were shown to have a leaky epithelium by placing a solution of concentrated urea into the bladder and measuring the absorption.
(8) The affinity labeling was intensified when resealed vesicles were made leaky by freezing or ultrasonication, suggesting that the poly(A) binding proteins are accessible from the nucleoplasmic but not the cytoplasmic face of the envelope.
(9) Increases in permeability of the hamster cheek pouch were quantitated by the formation of microvascular leaky sites.
(10) This alteration in Ca2+ pump activity is not due to (i) non-specific effects of vesicle preparation in the two animal groups, (ii) increased leakiness to Ca2+, or (iii) any apparent alteration in permeability of the membrane to K+ and Cl-.
(11) Acetyl phosphate is hydrolyzed by the calcium ATPase of leaky sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles from rabbit skeletal muscle with Km = 6.5 mM and kcat = 7.9 s-1 in the presence of 100 microM calcium (180 mM K+, 5 mM MgSO4, pH 7.0, 25 degrees C).
(12) Analysis using an SV40-derived vector indicates that the transcription termination site in the HBV genome is also leaky for X gene transcription when a heterologous promoter initiates the transcription.
(13) The ability of the position 236 mutants to grow better than the parent in the presence of low concentrations of thiodigalactoside appears to be due to a decrease in affinity for this particular sugar rather than a generalized defect in H+ leakiness.
(14) These observations confirm previously published data and add further support to the proposition that channeling of glycolytic intermediates occurs in DSP cells but is of the "leaky" type.
(15) they were prominent around the leaky vessels in the grey matter, in the subpial zone and in the white matter.
(16) The severe and prolonged asphyxia rendered the blood-brain barrier leaky to the albumin tracer Evans blue.
(17) A gpp spoT double mutant, constructed by employing a leaky spoT mutation, was found to have a slower rate of pppGpp degradation than the gpp mutant alone.
(18) Administration of histamine (10(-4) M) to the exposed brain surface for 5 min increased the number of leaky sites to Na-fluorescein and FITC-albumin 3.2 and 3.6 times, respectively.
(19) Mutant strains of E. amylovora, selected for resistance to each separate antibacterial agent (or to all three of them), showed a direct correlation (in all but the novobiocin-resistant mutant) between drug resistance and reduced periplasmic leakiness.
(20) The model is a simple network consisting basically of (1) two subunits that have receptive fields with a center-surround organization and an adaptational gain control, (2) a lateral inhibitory pathway, (3) a site of nonlinear interaction, followed by (4) a leaky temporal integrator.