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canopycan‧o‧py /ˈkænəpi/ noun (plural canopies) [countable] canopyOrigin: 1300-1400 Medieval Latin canopeum ‘mosquito net’, from Greek konopion, from konops ‘mosquito’ - a canopy over the patio
- The tops of the trees in the rain forest are called the canopy.
- In the tipping, he saw the headlights of a car pulling up under the canopy out front.
- It was cool under the canopy and there was less light than Rostov had expected.
- Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.
- One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould.
- Powers popped his canopy, loosened his harness and was ejected by the centrifugal force.
- The road was overhung with a pretty dense canopy.
- This model of the canopy consists of a number of infinitely extended horizontal canopy layers.
- Underneath the tree canopy of luminescent green there are flowers everywhere.
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