The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.
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Branchy
Synonyms for "branchy" (18 found)
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Strong matches (5)
Related words (9)
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Antonyms
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34 entriesShowing 16 of 34 words.
Translations
10 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- клонест adj (having many branches)
- разклонен adj (having many branches)
Finnish
3 entries- haarova adj (tending to branch frequently)
- monihaarainen adj (having many branches)
- oksainen adj (having many branches)
French
1 entries- branchu adj (having many branches)
Galician
2 entries- ramalludo adj (having many branches)
- ramudo adj (having many branches)
Latin
1 entries- pampinōsus adj (having many branches)
Romanian
1 entries- rămuros adj (having many branches)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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,
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No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
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[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— […]
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