Meaning & use
Boughy
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Having many boughs (tree branches); leafy and full of overhanging limbs.
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The path wound beneath a boughy canopy of old oaks.
A boughy hedge shaded the far end of the garden.
A note on using this word
"Boughy" is a rare, largely literary adjective, seen mostly in descriptive or poetic writing about trees and woodlands rather than everyday speech.
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