branchy
Collocations
3ADJ.
needed
VERB + BRANCHY
grew
BRANCHY + NOUN
thicket
Definitions
adj
Having many branches.
The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.
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,
Tending to branch frequently.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
Antonyms
- branchless
Idioms & Phrases
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3The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.
Wiktionary1795, 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 inf
WiktionaryNo branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
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