[f. SPRAY sb.1] Having sprays or small twigs; spray-like.
1848. Lever, H. Templeton, xii. The candles were … glittering like stars through the sprayey branches [of the larch-tree]. Ibid. (1859), Dav. Dunn, II. xv. 157. Ferns that would have overtopped a tall horseman mingled their sprayey leaves with the wild myrtle and the arbutus.
1882. Garden, 14 Jan., 25/2. Soft packing … may consist of soft sprayey faggots.
