branchlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of branchlet
Example Sentences
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Or a summer-shoot may appear on vigorous branches of any species with the result of converting a uninodal spring-shoot into an imperfect multinodal branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The first group, Ectocarpeæ, is composed of thread-like jointed plants, the fructification of which consists of external spores, sometimes formed by the swelling of a branchlet.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
The trees, ashes and elms, that bordered a field adjoining the kail-yard, stood strangely out against this glow; every branchlet and twig seemed traced in ink—the blackest of the black.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
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