boughnoun [ C ]
uk/baʊ/us/baʊ/literarya large branch of a tree
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Parts of plants
- aerial root
- bud
- cambium
- cane
- clove
- corm
- cotyledon
- fig leaf
- frond
- lamina
- leafless
- meristem
- micropyle
- nectary
- organ
- rootstock
- testa
- the treetops
- trunk
- twig
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Examples from literature
- Moreover, fruit trees by bending their boughs towards the earth seem to offer their crop to man.
- Sturdy maples threw curving, interlacing boughs across, through which the sun-light filtered and flickered.
- The cold sunlight came through the golden maple boughs and lay in patches on the undergrowth of drying golden-rod and asters.
- The natives cut the road, digging a ditch which they covered over with boughs and earth.
- There were the beehives, and the bees humming among the orchard boughs.