a. [See LEAVED, LEAFED.] a. Having or covered with dense foliage; thickly set with leaves.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 28. Shaded with thick-leaued arbours.

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1660.  Blount, Boscobel, 32. The colonel made choice of a thick-leafed oak.

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1847.  Tennyson, Princess, III. 159. The thick-leaved platans of the vale.

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  b.  Having thick fleshy leaves.

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1707.  Mortimer, Husb. (1721), I. 31. Where thick-leav’d Weeds are amongst the Grass, they will need more drying than ordinary Grass doth.

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1860.  Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 199. A thick leafed … plant.

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