bough
noun
1 bough
Any of the larger branches of a tree.
Roget 245:
curvature,
curvity†,
curvation†;
incurvature†,
incurvity†;
incurvation†;
bend;
flexure,
flexion,
flection†;
conflexure†;
crook,
hook,
bought,
bending;
deflection,
deflexion†;
inflection,
inflexion†;
concameration†;
arcuation†,
devexity†,
turn,
deviation,
detour,
sweep;
curl,
curling;
bough;
recurvity†,
recurvation†;
sinuosity
etc.
248.
kink.
carve,
arc,
arch,
arcade,
vault,
bow,
crescent,
half-moon,
lunule†,
horseshoe,
loop,
crane neck;
parabola,
hyperbola;
helix,
spiral;
catenary†,
festoon;
conchoid†,
cardioid;
caustic;
tracery;
arched ceiling,
arched roof;
bay window,
bow window.
sine curve;
spline,
spline curve,
spline function;
obliquity
etc.
217.
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Roget 367:
vegetable,
vegetable kingdom;
flora,
verdure.
plant;
tree,
shrub,
bush;
creeper;
herb,
herbage;
grass.
annual;
perennial,
biennial,
triennial;
exotic.
timber,
forest;
wood,
woodlands;
timberland;
hurst†,
frith†,
holt,
weald†,
park,
chase,
greenwood,
brake,
grove,
copse,
coppice,
bocage†,
tope,
clump of trees,
thicket,
spinet,
spinney;
underwood,
brushwood;
scrub;
boscage,
bosk†,
ceja [Sp.],
chaparal,
motte [U.S.];
arboretum
etc.
371.
bush,
jungle,
prairie;
heath,
heather;
fern,
bracken;
furze,
gorse,
whin;
grass,
turf;
pasture,
pasturage;
turbary†;
sedge,
rush,
weed;
fungus,
mushroom,
toadstool;
lichen,
moss,
conferva†,
mold;
growth;
alfalfa,
alfilaria†,
banyan;
blow,
blowth†;
floret†,
petiole;
pin grass,
timothy,
yam,
yew,
zinnia.
foliage,
branch,
bough,
ramage†,
stem,
tigella†;
spray
etc.
51;
leaf.
flower,
blossom,
bine†;
flowering plant;
timber tree,
fruit tree;
pulse,
legume.
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Roget 51:
part,
portion;
dose;
item,
particular;
aught,
any;
division,
ward;
subdivision,
section;
chapter,
clause,
count,
paragraph,
verse;
article,
passage;
sector,
segment;
fraction,
fragment;
cantle,
frustum;
detachment,
parcel.
piece [Fr.],
lump,
bit cut,
cutting;
chip,
chunk,
collop†,
slice,
scale;
lamina
etc.
204;
small part;
morsel,
particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
installment,
dividend;
share
etc.
(allotment)
786.
debris,
odds and ends,
oddments,
detritus;
excerpta†;
member,
limb,
lobe,
lobule,
arm,
wing,
scion,
branch,
bough,
joint,
link,
offshoot,
ramification,
twig,
bush,
spray,
sprig;
runner;
leaf,
leaflet;
stump;
component part
etc.
56;
sarmentum†.
compartment;
department
etc.
(class)
75;
county
etc.
(region)
181.
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Dutch: tak
Polish: konar
Moby thesaurus: appendage, arm, bine, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, deadwood, flagellum, fork, frond, hand, imp, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, runner, sarment, scion, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, sucker, switch, tail, tendril, thallus, twig, wing ... show more.
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