Branchy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Branchy is an adjective meaning Having many branches.
Meaning
Having many branches.
More Meanings
- Tending to branch frequently.
Example Sentences
The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.
No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
[T]he trees blew stedfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward— […]
1795, William Blake, The Book of Los, Chapter II, lines 92-4, in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2007, p. 288, […] there grew / Branchy forms, organizing the Human / Into finite inflexible organs,
Word Forms
- branchier
- branchiest
Synonyms for branchy
Depending on context, synonyms include arboreal, branching, arboreous, branched, dendroid, dendriform.
Antonyms for branchy
Common opposites include branchless.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brachiate, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, arborescent, bushy.
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