branchlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of branchlet
Example Sentences
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The girl is soft of speech, fair of form, like a branchlet of basil, with teeth like chamomile-petals and hair like halters wherefrom to hang hearts.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Capillitium of long brown threads suspended from the apical disk, the threads branched a few times, occasionally anastomosing by a short, transverse branchlet, the free ends often forked.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
The branchlet furnishes evidence of the section to which the species belongs, for the bract-bases persist after the bracts have fallen away.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Then stretched I forth my hand a little forward, And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn; And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?"
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The presence of wax, as a bloom on the branchlet, is associated with trees in arid localities, especially Mexico, where it is very common.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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