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Twiggy   Listen
adjective
Twiggy  adj.  Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Twiggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this lake is very romantic, buried in a tall forest of oaks and laurels, and fringed by wild camellia shrubs; the latter are not the leafy, deep green, large-blossomed plants of our greenhouses, but twiggy bushes with small scattered leaves, and little yellowish flowers like those of the tea-plant. The massive walls of a ruined temple rise close to the water, which looks like the still moat of a castle: beside it are some grand old funereal cypresses, with ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... at its best to U. Americana, 50-75 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 2-3 feet; reaching in southern Michigan a height of 100 feet and a diameter of 5 feet; trunk rather slender; branches short and stout, often twiggy in the interior of the tree; branchlets slender, spreading, sometimes with a drooping ...
— Handbook of the Trees of New England • Lorin Low Dame



Words linked to "Twiggy" :   lean, twig, thin



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