lean-leaved

Updated: June 15, 2025

But the native growth is woody and lean-leaved; and its cooling fruit, which we clumsily term a 'prickly pear' or 'fig, is everywhere a favourite in hot climates. There are now sundry claimants to the honour of having here fathered the modern industry.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I