branchy

From branch +‎ -y.

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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.

   • 1795, William Blake, The Book of Los, Chapter II, lines 92-4, in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2007, p. 288,

     there grew / Branchy forms, organizing the Human / Into finite inflexible organs,

   • 1834 September (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Sir Galahad”, in Poems.  In Two Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, stanza V, lines 58-60:

     No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessed forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell , chapter X, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography.  In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC, pages 255–256:

     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—

   • 1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published , London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 41:

     Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did / Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers;

2. Tending to branch frequently.