canopy
IPA: kˈænʌpi
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.
- (intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
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