canopy
[noun]
Synonyms: awning, covering, shade, sunshade

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can‧o‧py /ˈkænəpi/ noun (plural canopies) [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: canopeum 'mosquito net', from Greek konopion, from konops 'mosquito']

1. a cover made of cloth that is fixed above a bed, seat etc as a decoration or as a shelter

2. the leaves and branches of trees, that make a kind of roof in a forest:
the forest canopy

3. literary something that spreads above you like a roof:
a canopy of twinkling stars
—canopied adjective

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

canopy
noun
ADJ. dense, thick a thick canopy of branches
forest, leafy, tree
VERB + CANOPY form The trees formed a leafy canopy above their heads.
PREP. beneath/under a/the ~ | ~ of sitting beneath a canopy of branches

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