canopy

IPA: kˈænʌpi

A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
The vault of heavens, the firmament in ancient cosmology and in later scientific theory related to the Biblical Book of Genesis.

Examples of "canopy" in Sentences

The canopy hinges open to the right.
Above the canopy is the emergent layer.
The canopy of the pilot's cockpit opened sideways.
The front side of the canopy depicts the Annunciation.
It forages in the upper and middle levels of the canopy.
He pulled the extraction handle, jettisoning the canopy.
The preferred amount of canopy cover at the roost is unclear.
The canopy boardwalk is the ultimate highlight of this outing.
The amount of herbaceous vegetation is related to canopy cover.
I use a climber where the canopy is more open and I can see well.
Several feet of space between the roof and tree canopy is much safer.
They prefer to roost in the middle and upper canopy strata in the full sun.
The canopy is held by Oxford students in sub-fusc, which is the academic wear of students of Oxford University.
Until the canopy is installed, a temporary sign inside the station will direct people to the north escalators during bad weather.
One of the surprising things I discovered is if you pull back with me on those mats of epiphytes what you'll find underneath them are connections, networks of what we call canopy roots.
A painted plaster corset she was forced to wear to support her deteriorating spine presides over her bed, and under the canopy is a mirror which enabled her to paint her many self portraits.