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" (14 found)
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6 entriesbranched veinconvoluted explanationdendritic formdigressive argumentrambling proseramified pattern
Collocations
6 entriesbranchy dendritebranchy morphologybranchy networkbranchy rootsbranchy structurebranchy tree
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Sample sentences
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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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