canopy

noun (plural canopies)

• 1an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed:a romantic four-poster bed complete with drapes and a canopy figurativea full moon and a canopy of stars
• Architecture a roof-like projection or shelter: they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy
• the transparent plastic or glass cover of an aircraft’s cockpit.
• the expanding, umbrella-like part of a parachute, made of silk or nylon.

• 2 [in singular] the uppermost branches of the trees in a forest, forming a more or less continuous layer of foliage:woolly monkeys spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy

verb (canopies, canopying, canopied)

• cover or provide with a canopy: a canopied bed the river was canopied by overhanging trees