twiggy
Example Sentences
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They shed their limbs, become a drifting blob and morph into polyps, twiggy growths that attach to rocks or plants.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022
Amur maple is a small twiggy tree with a shrubby low-branching habit, although you’ll find most nursery trees trained as a single trunk.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2021
Instead, the facility’s various chemicals and experiments transform Alec Holland into the green, leafy, twiggy Swamp Thing.
From The Verge • May 31, 2019
After spending the winter huddled in sage brush, a twiggy shrub that carpets the plains and is the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, male grouse gather on patches of open ground known as leks.
From Economist • May 3, 2018
By then the leaves were beginning to fall more every day, and some of the trees had begun to show their skeletons, twiggy and brown.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
