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Having many branches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Tending to branch frequently.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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having many branches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: branchless
Etymology tree English branch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English branchy From branch + -y.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
клонест
(klonest)
— having many branches
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Bulgarian:
разклонен
(razklonen)
— having many branches
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Finnish:
monihaarainen
— having many branches
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Finnish:
oksainen
— having many branches
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French:
branchu
— having many branches
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Galician:
ramudo
— having many branches
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Galician:
ramalludo
— having many branches
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Latin:
pampinōsus
— having many branches
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Romanian:
rămuros
— having many branches
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Finnish:
haarova
— tending to branch frequently
