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   canopy

   /ˈkanəpi/

   noun

   • 1. an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed: "a romantic four-poster bed complete with drapes and a canopy"
   • ▪ a projection or shelter that resembles a roof: "they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy"
   • ▪ the transparent plastic or glass cover of an aircraft's cockpit.
   • ▪ the expanding, umbrella-like part of a parachute, made of silk or nylon.
   • 2. the uppermost branches of the trees in a forest, forming a more or less continuous layer of foliage: "woolly monkeys spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy"

   verb

   • 1. cover or provide with a canopy: "the river was canopied by overhanging trees"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin canopeum ‘ceremonial canopy’, alteration of Latin conopeum ‘mosquito net over a bed’, from Greek kōnōpeion ‘couch with mosquito curtains’, from kōnōps ‘mosquito’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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