canopy

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Beyond housing biodiversity, the canopy is the power source of the rainforest, with billions of tree leaves acting as miniature solar panels to convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis.

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  1. noun A covering, usually of cloth, suspended over a throne or bed or held aloft on poles above an eminent person or a sacred object.
  2. noun Architecture An ornamental rooflike projection over a niche, altar, or tomb.
  3. noun A protective rooflike covering, often of canvas, mounted on a frame over a walkway or door.
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  • Here in the dense forest, the canopy was an unbroken road. —  Witch Star.htm
  • On the curtains was embroidered many times the symbol of the silver wheel the sorceress had worn on her hand, and at the front of the canopy was a silver shield. —  Red As Blood
  • Then the third ring of ice would overshadow the second canopy, and break down on top of it, forming either a double canopy or a doubly thick one. —  Rings of Ice
  • Unfortunately, the canopy is about three stories above the sidewalk, so during inclement weather it performs no service whatsoever. —  Das Mixture
  • A second claw of a canopy is at the southeast corner of the site, butting-up against neighbors who are, no doubt, looking forward to some —  Curbed
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curtain ·  dome ·  drapery ·  foliage ·  veil ·  expanse ·  mantle ·  tapestry ·  pillar ·  vault ·  bough ·  wreath

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  1. Middle English canape, from Medieval Latin canāpēum, mosquito net, from Latin cōnōpēum, from Greek kōnōpeion, bed with mosquito netting, from kōnōps, kōnōp-, mosquito.

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  1. Early modern English also canapy, canapie; = Dutch kanapee = German canapee, kanapee, a canopied couch, sofa, from French canapé (after Italian), properly conopée (Cotgrave) = OPg. ganapé = Spanish Portuguese canape = Italian canope = Walloon canapeu, a canopy, canopied couch, from Middle Latin canapeum, canapeium, canapium, canopium, properly conopeum, a mosquito-net, a tent, pavilion, from Greek κωνωπεῖον, κωνωπεών, an Egyptian bed with mosquito-curtains, a pavilion, from κώνωψ (κωνωπ-), a gnat, mosquito, perhaps an accommodation of a foreign (Egyptian ?) word, but apparently ‘cone-faced,’ as if from some fancied likeness to a cone, from κῶνος, a cone, + ὤψ, face: see cone and optic.
  2. from canopy, n.
 

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