spidery branch
- noun
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rama delgada
- A single cobweb clung to a spidery branch swaying in the wind.
Examples
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The sunlight filtered gently through the spidery branches overhead.
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Crows perched on the spidery branch of a dead tree near the creek.
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The spidery branch swayed gently in the wind.
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Look at that spidery branch over there!
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The sunlight filtered gently through the spidery branch overhead.
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Crows perched on the spidery branch of a dead tree near the creek.
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A single cobweb clung to a spidery branch swaying in the wind.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a thin and delicate branch resembling the legs of a spider' is directly derivable from combining 'spidery' (resembling a spider; delicate) with 'branch' (a woody limb). This is a regular adjectival modification and follows transparent compositional patterns that a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand.
Etymology
Spidery branch comes from the picture of a very thin tree limb that looks like a spider's long legs, with spidery meaning 'like a spider' and branch meaning a limb of a tree. So spidery branch is used to mean 'a thin and delicate branch'.