单词 | branchy |
释义 | branchyadj. 1. Bearing branches; full of, covered with, or consisting of branches. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or having branch(es) brancheda1375 branchinga1382 branchy1382 boughedc1400 branch-bearing1567 boughy1570 branch-embellished1596 embranched?1596 rameous1760 ramous1813 rameal1816 ramal1834 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Kings xvii. 10 And vndir al braunchy tree. 1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. xv Com to me, into this braunchy wood. 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 127 Called arms, for their hard branchey resemblance. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 313 [Trees]..lopp'd, and lighten'd of their branchy load. 1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 21 The cedar..The branchy monarch of the wood. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 35 The outspread olive's branchy shade. 2. transferred. Putting forth offshoots, or divisions; wide-spreading, ramifying; also (of deer) bearing horns, antlered. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adjective] > ramified branchy1606 ramified1673 branching1720 arterial1817 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [adjective] > having antlers headed?a1425 summeda1425 forked1605 branching1667 beamy1694 antlered1828 branchy1830 1606 N. Baxter Man Created in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 238 Within a branchie filme there lyeth the braine. 1676 J. Beaumont in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 731 I have a piece of branchy spar. 1830 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 99 The deer..stood..tossing high their branchy foreheads. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak lxix, in Poems (new ed.) II. 81 The fat earth feed thy branchy root. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1382 |
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