shooty
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8.3
Full of new stems and young branches
- adjective
- /ˈʃuːti/
- Specialized
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brotes
- Pruning encourages roses to become shooty with lots of new stems.
Examples
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The shooty branches made the young tree look especially healthy this spring.
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After a week of rain, the garden became noticeably more shooty and green.
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The garden is quite shooty this spring.
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I love how shooty the new plants are.
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The shooty plants in the garden burst with new growth after the rain.
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After careful care, the once bare soil is now filled with shooty green sprouts.
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The shooty vines climbed up the trellis, creating a lush display in the garden.
How Bushy
Surface Forms
shooty positive
Morphology
Etymology
Shooty comes from the plant noun shoot, meaning 'a new stem or young growth', plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'covered with'. So shooty describes a plant that is 'full of shoots' and growing many new branches.