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- noun
Leyland Cypress , especially when part of a large hedge
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Examples
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It's much easier to saw three - to four-inch thick pieces of wet, sticky wood such as leylandii than eight - to 12-inch ones.
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A field-load of cranes nods behind a row of dirt-tinged leylandii.
Alan Sugar ? the lord of all he surveys Sabine Durrant 2010
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But so are the millions around the world who love that twee suburban pest, that leylandii of musicals, The Phantom of the Opera.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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The tiny one gallon Cupressocyparis leylandii row has skyrocketed to screen the neighboring houses.
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Planted with the fast-growing Rutland leylandii – if one ponders too long which path to take, both may disappear – it has proved a firm favourite with visitors, particularly since I hit upon the idea of charging them to leave the thing rather than enter it.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Planted with the fast-growing Rutland leylandii – if one ponders too long which path to take, both may disappear – it has proved a firm favourite with visitors, particularly since I hit upon the idea of charging them to leave the thing rather than enter it.
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Some MPs enjoy the underdog status of the opposition member when one's sole duty is to assault the Government at every opportunity as opposed to, for example, worrying about leylandii policy or where to build a new runway.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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It's your last chance to clip leylandii, thuja, hornbeam, beech, privet and honeysuckle hedges.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Also, the actress has planted 150 cypress leylandii saplings, ranging from 4ft to 6ft tall, around her 140-acre Bunya Hill estate.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Bureau News 2010
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Also, the actress has planted 150 cypress leylandii saplings, ranging from 4ft to 6ft tall, around her 140-acre Bunya Hill estate.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Bureau News 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word leylandii
"She sent me out to check ten sycamores at the backs of some houses in Romsey to see whether there was a root problem when it came to the sewers (the sycamores were fine, though a leylandii clump was too close to the houses by far) and by the time I got back to work she'd sent me an email saying I'd been assigned next week off, on half-pay—in October, which is one of our busiest times."
Artful by Ali Smith, p 57
August 3, 2013