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LEAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leaved mean? 

LEAVED (adjective)
  The adjective LEAVED has 1 sense:

1. having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combinationplay

  Familiarity information: LEAVED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LEAVED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having leaves or leaves as specified; often used in combination

Synonyms:

leafed; leaved

Context example:

four-leaved clover

Similar:

leafy (having or covered with leaves)


 Context examples 


A substance derived from any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs including the plant Silybum marianum.

(Milk thistle, NCI Thesaurus)

The essential oil extracted from the leaves of the ivy-leaved geranium, Pelargonium peltatum.

(Pelargonium Peltatum Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I'm going to take care of you, so don't cry any more, but come and walk about with me, the wind is too chilly for you to sit still, he said, in the half-caressing, half-commanding way that Amy liked, as he tied on her hat, drew her arm through his, and began to pace up and down the sunny walk under the new-leaved chestnuts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The hay was all got in; the fields round Thornfield were green and shorn; the roads white and baked; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had no pleasure in thinking, any more, of the grave old broad-leaved aloe-trees, which remained shut up in themselves a hundred years together, and of the trim smooth grass-plot, and the stone urns, and the Doctor's walk, and the congenial sound of the Cathedral bell hovering above them all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This ruddy shine issued from the great dining-room, whose two- leaved door stood open, and showed a genial fire in the grate, glancing on marble hearth and brass fire-irons, and revealing purple draperies and polished furniture, in the most pleasant radiance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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