How to Use leafed in a Sentence

leafed

adjective

• The trail/road starts out with a slight rise and a few small hills, easy and pretty this spring amid fresh-leafed oak woodlands.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2018
• Hancock says this is especially true for thin-leafed plants.
  — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 12 Jan. 2026
• Avoid getting water on fuzzy leafed plants like African violets.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
• There are both green leafed varieties (which can be more aggressive) and dark purple foliaged forms.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2021
• Traces of leafcutter bees can be seen on roses and other thick-leafed plants that have semicircles cut out around the edge.
  — Linnea Covington, The Know, 4 Aug. 2020
• The tiny leaves of string of hearts contrast nicely when displayed alongside big-leafed tropicals like monstera and pothos.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2026
• The herbicide will kill the grass, including the roots, without injuring the broad-leafed plants.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 9 July 2020
• The effect of the wind was intensified since trees were still fully leafed, increasing the surface area that wind could push against.
  — Jacob Feuerstein, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• Remember, that big leafed hydrangeas usually need more water.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
• Water in the cool of morning and avoid getting water on the rosettes of echeverias and other flat or broad-leafed varieties.
  — Leslie Crawford, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• This tough-leafed shrub community established itself as part of the local plant landscape millions of years ago.
  — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
• Dark Star is a mammoth green-leafed alocasia, as is the golden-yellow Alocasia lutea.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 May 2021
• Most got their name because Beaver Creek was already taken, and also from the narrow-leafed shrub that holds their banks in thickets and tangles.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• Intensely green, verging on chartreuse, plantains hang like chandeliers from tall broad-leafed plants across the Caribbean.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• This smooth-leafed cousin of the prickly Christmas-style holly has whitish-green flowers in spring before the dark berries that give the shrub its name appear in late summer and early fall.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
• Known as the Diamond and Pearl Leaf Brooch, the piece features a triad of pearls set into a leafed branch of pave diamonds.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 14 Sep. 2022
• Blonde wood and glass walls render the whole triple-deck interior Champagne-colored and the golden-leafed sculpture hanging in the atrium is truly lovely.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
• There are the shimmering, silver-leafed balcony boxes that create a scalloped collar around the upper level of the grand ballroom in which anyone who was anyone once waltzed or sang or partied hard.
  — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
• Ormiston held up a wild leek, a green-leafed member of the onion family with a pungent, edible bulb, and pointed out coral bells, the green, native kind, not the colorful hybrids found at plant nurseries.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• Last among the common winter annual weeds, is the white-flowering common chickweed (Stellaria media), another tiny-leafed plant that hugs the ground.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2018
• Also, in this broad-leafed, evergreen, tropical forest, light seemed to be a more important factor than rainfall in the forest’s photosynthetic dance.
  — Daniel Glick, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2017
• The city started growing the large and colorfully leafed plant in the 1940s and as its popularity in landscaping grew, so did the industry.
  — Ellie Rushing, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
• Carefully wearing plastic coverings over their precious sneakers, two men trek through foliage toward a glowing pink opening that looks more than a little like an engorged vulva between two heavily leafed legs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• In small spaces and used alongside smaller leafed plants such as helichrysum, calibrachoas and petunias, the coleus foliage will read as the giant of the group — useful when playing with textural combinations.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• Biochemist colleagues analyzed the broad-leafed plant, Vernonia amygdalina, and discovered more than a dozen new compounds with antiparasitic properties.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• The name Mayawell is a play on Mayahuel, the Aztec name for the goddess of agave, a spiny-leafed plant native to the Americas that people have long fermented into alcoholic drinks, and eventually learned to strengthen through distillation.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 12 May 2020