CANOPY

I. noun (plural -pies) Etymology: Middle English canope, from Medieval Latin canopeum mosquito net, from Latin conopeum, from Greek kōnōpion, from kōnōps mosquito Date: 14th century 1. a cloth covering suspended over a bed, a cover (as of cloth) fixed or carried above a person of high rank or a sacred object ; baldachin , a protective covering: as, the uppermost spreading branchy layer of a forest, awning , marquee , an ornamental rooflike structure, 3. the transparent enclosure over an airplane cockpit, the fabric part of a parachute that catches the air, II. transitive verb (-pied; -pying) Date: 1594 to cover with or as if with a ~