Canopy vs Overstory - What's the difference?
canopy | overstory | Synonyms |
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
* Dryden
Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
To cover with or as if with a canopy.
* Milton
To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
The upper portion of a community of plants, above the understory.
Overstory is a synonym of canopy.
As nouns the difference between canopy and overstory
is that canopy is a high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed while overstory is the upper portion of a community of plants, above the understory.As a verb canopy
is to cover with or as if with a canopy.canopy
English
Noun
(canopies)- golden canopies and beds of state
Verb
(en-verb)- A bank with ivy canopied .