BRANCHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does branchy mean? 

• BRANCHY (adjective)
  The adjective BRANCHY has 1 sense:

1. having many branches

  Familiarity information: BRANCHY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANCHY (adjective)

Comparative: branchier   
Superlative: branchiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having many branches

Context example:

a branchy tree trunk

Similar:

arboreal; arboreous; arborescent; arboresque; arboriform; dendriform; dendroid; dendroidal; tree-shaped; treelike (resembling a tree in form and branching structure)

brachiate (having widely spreading paired branches)

branched; branching; ramate; ramose; ramous (having branches)

bushy (resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading)

long-branched (having long branches)

maple-like; maplelike (resembling maple)

mop-headed ((of trees) having a bushy top without a leader)

stiff-branched (having stiff branches)

thick-branched (having thick branches)

well-branched (having good branches)

Antonym:

branchless (having no branches)

Derivation:

branch (a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant)

branch (a part of a forked or branching shape)

 Context examples 

Instead of subsiding as night drew on, it seemed to augment its rush and deepen its roar: the trees blew steadfastly 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—the clouds drifted from pole to pole, fast following, mass on mass: no glimpse of blue sky had been visible that July day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)