What is "branchy"

Usage examples of "branchy".

He kept an anxious look-out for the moon, and was presently rejoiced to behold a broad fire that twinkled branchy beams through an east-hill orchard.

The stately oak reared its branchy head, and the trees and shrubs burst from the surface of the earth.

Gideon Spilett was at first surprised at the odor which exhaled from certain plants with straight stalks, round and branchy, bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and very small berries.

He bent forward to look into the branchy opening of the shelter, and gasped at what he saw there.

I complied, and inside I found a branchy wigwam rife with headache-inducing Mexican pot of the weakest caliber.

Showing only the top of his head, the man held the branchy arms of a small boy of five or six.

But when they looked like trees, it was like strangely human trees, and when they looked like people, it was like strangely branchy and leafy people - and all the time that queer lilting, rustling, cool, merry noise.

The branchy top, hurled by the wind, crashed through other treetops and fell onto the roadside.

Reyn scrabbled along the branchy trunk to reach him and shelter him with his body.

By leaving a fairly dense stand he prevents the windfall danger which threatens the survivors of too vigorous cutting, and also prevents them from assuming the branchy form of trees which receive too much side light.

The transformed cladists, however, like the true cladists that they once were, bring in clustery, branchy thinking right at the outset.

Those looking up from below -- and by now there were some, despite the strong counter-attraction of the stage -- saw two struggling, white-clad torsos and fair-haired heads dipping out of the branchy roof, as if about to descend in swan dives.