adjective
-
of or relating to a twig or twigs
-
covered with twigs
-
slender or fragile
Etymology
Origin of twiggy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Weyerhaeuser trained an AI model to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates, which are typically obtained by sending foresters to count twiggy young trees in rugged or sweltering terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
As plants grow, they hide the twiggy underpinnings.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Even after a week of treatment with enriched formula, the boy, Sharaf Shaitah, lay motionless on a hospital bed, his bones peeking through the skin of his twiggy limbs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
Gathering fallen branches to form twiggy sculptures in the woods has been a welcome distraction for the children.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020
By then the leaves were beginning to fall more every day, and some of the trees had begun to show their skeletons, twiggy and brown.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
