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branchy

branchy adjective: having many branches.

Adjective

branchy (comparative branchier or more branchy, superlative branchiest or most branchy)

  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.
    • […] there grew / Branchy forms, organizing the Human / Into finite inflexible organs,1795, William Blake, The Book of Los, Chapter II, lines 92-4, in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2007, p. 288
  2. Tending to branch frequently.

branchy meaning in Bengali

branchy in Bengali

অনেক শাখা বিশিষ্ট

Examples of branchy in a sentence

  • No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.1834 September (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Sir Galahad”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza V, lines...
  • [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— […]1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […]...

Forms of branchy

comparativebranchier
comparativemore branchy
superlativebranchiest
superlativemost branchy

Origin of branchy

From branch + -y.

Words formed from branchy

Questions about branchy

What does branchy mean?
Branchy means having many branches.
What is branchy in Bengali?
Branchy in Bengali is অনেক শাখা বিশিষ্ট. See Branchy meaning in Bengali.
How do you use branchy in a sentence?
No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.
What part of speech is branchy?
Branchy is an adjective.

Words near branchy in the dictionary

  1. branchwidths
  2. branchwise
  3. branchwood
  4. branchwork
  5. branchworks
  6. branchy
  7. Branco
  8. brancoceratid
  9. brancoceratids
  10. Brancos
  11. Brancusian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: branchy (page history and authors); branchy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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