CANOPY


Meaning of CANOPY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the forest canopy (= the area at the top of the trees )

He could see the sky through the gaps in the forest canopy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

forest

Gibbons communicate and hold territories by means of loud hooting voices that carry through and over the forest canopy .

As the arms race wore on, the average height of trees in the forest canopy went up.

Voice over Charles will be flying just forty feet above the rain forest canopy , at night.

They live mostly on the forest canopy and have white fur crash helmets with black faces and black ears peeping out.

Keols, invisible in the forest canopy , were calling to each other in their incessant woody voices.

We want to get an idea of what's going on in the rain forest canopy .

Second, in the forest canopy it was no longer an advantage to live in large groups.

This takes place mainly up in the forest canopy , and so is almost impossible to film from the ground.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a canopy over the patio

The tops of the trees in the rain forest are called the canopy .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In the tipping, he saw the headlights of a car pulling up under the canopy out front.

It was cool under the canopy and there was less light than Rostov had expected.

Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.

One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould.

Powers popped his canopy , loosened his harness and was ejected by the centrifugal force.

The road was overhung with a pretty dense canopy .

This model of the canopy consists of a number of infinitely extended horizontal canopy layers.

Underneath the tree canopy of luminescent green there are flowers everywhere.

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