Nature
Synonyms for canopy
The synonym for canopy recorded in this bank is cover, in the sense "the covering formed by the interlocking tops of trees in a forest". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for canopy
- covernoun, in the sense "the covering formed by the interlocking tops of trees in a forest"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and canopy carries one sense so far.
the covering formed by the interlocking tops of trees in a forest
Sunlight barely reached the forest floor beneath the dense canopy.
The true synonym
cover
Same sentence, swapped: Sunlight barely reached the forest floor beneath the dense cover.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for canopy in the sentence quoted.
- understory
- root
- trunk
Where canopy turns up in the game
canopy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where canopy is the trap
- gladenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is clearing, in the sense "an open, grassy space within a forest", with canopy sitting one tile away.
- girthnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is circumference, in the sense "the measurement around something thick or round", and canopy is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play canopy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so canopy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. canopy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.