branchy

Etymology

branch +‎ -y

Adjective

branchy (comparative branchier or more branchy, superlative branchiest or most branchy)

1. Having many branches.
   • 1795, William Blake, The Book of Los, Chapter II, lines 92-4, in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, Routledge, 2007, p. 288,

     […] there grew / Branchy forms, organizing the Human / Into finite inflexible organs,

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, "Sir Galahad" lines 58-60,

     No branchy thicket shelter yields; / But blessèd forms in whistling storms / Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in Jane Eyre‎:

     […] the trees blew steadfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward […]

   • 1879, Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Duns Scotus's Oxford" in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Robert Bridges, London: Humphrey Milford, no date, p. 41,

     Towery city and branchy between towers;

   The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.

2. Tending to branch frequently.