Question

the green canopy overhead filtered out most of the sunlight, but just enough flickered through to create a dancing pattern of light in the ground. What does the word canopy mean as used in the sentence?

Answer 1

In my opinion, the word 'canopy' in this sentence is used as a noun, to describe the dense leaves and branches that make up the tops of the trees in a forest. This particular sentence suggests that the canopy is quite dense from the section "... canopy overhead filtered out most of the sunlight...".

Hope this helped!

~Ash