canopy

«canopy» in Mova's school dictionary: the top layer of leaves and branches that covers the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a canopy, canopies)

meaning for a pupil

1) In a forest the canopy is the top layer of leaves and branches that covers the forest like a roof. tree →

2) A canopy is a cloth or roof held up over something, like a bed, a stall or a doorway. tree →

3) A canopy is the clear cover over a plane's cockpit or the cloth of a parachute. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons the rainforest has layers: emergent layer, canopy, understorey and forest floor; most animals live in the canopy. In everyday life a canopy keeps sun and rain off a market stall or a pram.

examples

• Monkeys live high up in the rainforest canopy. tree →
• The canopy blocks most sunlight from the forest floor. tree →
• We sat under a canopy at the outdoor café. tree →
• The princess slept in a bed with a canopy. tree →
• The pilot opened the cockpit canopy. tree →
• The thick canopy kept us dry in the rain. tree →
• Over it hung a canopy of rose-colored spider's webs, spotted with the prettiest little green flies, which sparkled like precious stones. tree →

note

Plural: canopies (y → ies). Stress on the first part: CAN-o-py. The canopy layer is below the emergent layer and above the understorey.

In the corpora

• When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.
• The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainforest.
• The canopy is the top layer of a forest, made by the tallest trees.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «canopy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.