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branchy

adj

Etymology

From branch + -y.

  1. inherited from braunchen
  2. derived from *vranca✻
  3. derived from branca — “footprint”, later also “paw, claw”
  4. derived from branche
  5. inherited from branche
  6. suffixed as branchy — “branch + y”

Definitions

  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.

  2. Tending to branch frequently.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA