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  • adjective Not covered by a canopy.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ canopied

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Examples

  • The dense rain forest and moderate undergrowth along the Route 14 segment would provide vegetation typical of the plateau region, while the proposed stretch of Route 1 consisted mainly of uncanopied forest containing heavy undergrowth.

    Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982

  • Peasants working for centuries beneath the uncanopied sun, and on the floors without walls, will not let doors and brickwork thumbscrew their souls in confinement thus!

    Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

  • Peasants working for centuries beneath the uncanopied sun, and on the floors without walls, will not let doors and brickwork thumbscrew their souls in confinement thus!

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

  • The uncanopied bedposts were within an inch of the ceiling.

    A southern woman's war time reminiscences, Elizabeth Lyle Saxon 1905

  • The ceiling was so low that it was hardly an inch from the uncanopied bedposts.

    A southern woman's war time reminiscences, Elizabeth Lyle Saxon 1905

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