bough has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) any of the larger branches of a tree

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple_tree .

Once , then - for how many years or how few does not matter - my world was bound round by fences , when I was too small to reach the apple_tree bough , to twist my knee over it and pull myself up .

A hay wagon moved slowly along the gutter , the top of it swept by the low boughs of the maple trees , and loose straws were left hanging tangled among the leaves .

Related terms

limb tree_branch

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21723
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