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branchy

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Definition of branchy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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,”
    “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— […]”
    “Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]”
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adj

  1. 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,”
    “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— […]”
    “Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; […]”
  2. Tending to branch frequently.

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Etymology

From branch + -y.

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