adjective
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of or relating to a twig or twigs
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covered with twigs
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slender or fragile
Etymology
Origin of twiggy
Example Sentences
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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
They shed their limbs, become a drifting blob and morph into polyps, twiggy growths that attach to rocks or plants.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
After flowering, it resorts to being a dull, twiggy shrub for 50 weeks of the year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021
The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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