Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in twigs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy.

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  • adjective Full of twigs; twiggy.

Etymologies

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twig +‎ -some

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Examples

  • But, when I was clear of the Custom House on the other side, and when I began to make the dust fly on the thirsty French roads, and when the twigsome trees by the wayside (which,

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

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