overcanopy
overcanopy verb: to form a canopy over (something).
Verb
overcanopy (third-person singular simple present overcanopies, present participle overcanopying, simple past and past participle overcanopied)
- To form a canopy over (something).
- I know a banke where the wilde thyme blowes, / Where Oxſlips and the nodding Violet growes, / Quite ouer-cannoped with luſcious woodbine, / With ſweet muſke roſes, and with Eglantine; […]c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
- On an eminence, in one of the most sequestered parts of these woods, was a rustic seat, formed of the trunk of a decayed oak, which had once been a noble tree, and of which many lofty branches still flourishing united with beech and pines to over-canopy the spot.1794 May 8, Ann Radcliffe, chapter V, in The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; […], 2nd edition, volume IV, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 76
Forms of overcanopy
| third-person singular present | overcanopies |
|---|---|
| present participle | overcanopying |
| past participle | overcanopied |
| past | overcanopied |
Origin of overcanopy
From over- + canopy.
Questions about overcanopy
- What does overcanopy mean?
- Overcanopy means to form a canopy over (something).
- What part of speech is overcanopy?
- Overcanopy is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overcanopy?
- The past tense of overcanopy is overcanopied.
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