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# canopy

«canopy» in Mova's school dictionary: **the top layer of leaves and branches that covers the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a canopy, canopies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a forest the canopy is the top layer of leaves and branches that covers the forest like a roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#m1)

2) A canopy is a cloth or roof held up over something, like a bed, a stall or a doorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#m2)

3) A canopy is the clear cover over a plane's cockpit or the cloth of a parachute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons the rainforest has layers: emergent layer, canopy, understorey and forest floor; most animals live in the canopy. In everyday life a canopy keeps sun and rain off a market stall or a pram.

### examples

- Monkeys live high up in the rainforest canopy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x1)
- The canopy blocks most sunlight from the forest floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x2)
- We sat under a canopy at the outdoor café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x3)
- The princess slept in a bed with a canopy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x4)
- The pilot opened the cockpit canopy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x5)
- The thick canopy kept us dry in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x6)
- Over it hung a canopy of rose-colored spider's webs, spotted with the prettiest little green flies, which sparkled like precious stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/#x7)

### note

Plural: canopies (y → ies). Stress on the first part: CAN-o-py. The canopy layer is below the emergent layer and above the understorey.

### In the corpora

- [When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/15/)
- [The canopy is the thick roof of leaves and branches high in a rainforest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/17/)
- [The canopy is the top layer of a forest, made by the tallest trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «canopy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/canopy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.