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twiggy

How to use twiggy in a sentence

This is called a twiggy fire, and it simulates the top burner in an oven.

Prescribed burns burn at a lower intensity, eating up debris and twiggy materials but leaving bigger trees intact.

There are many woody little, much branched, twiggy shrublets, which bristle all over with thorns and spines.

The leaves are neat, thickly-arranged, and hoary, while the whole plant is twiggy and of strict though by no means formal growth.

It is an old inhabitant of our gardens, and forms a somewhat erect, twiggy bush, of fully 10 feet in height.

Tree moderately vigorous, round-headed, twiggy; shoots reddish; foliage rather dark.

The great branches stand off nearly at right angles to the trunk, and are bushy and twiggy at the ends.

The tree is small, spreading into a compact though irregular head of twiggy, slender branches.

Occasionally an ant will slip in crossing a twiggy crevasse, and his leaf become tightly wedged.

Yes; these big shoots are long and smooth and straight, and the little twiggy ones are all over sharp points.

BROWNSMITH'S BOYGEORGE MANVILLE FENN

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985