branchlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of branchlet
Example Sentences
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I separated the branchlet into two equal parts: one I placed in my bosom; the other, having fervently kissed, I enclosed in a folded sheet, upon which I wrote the words— “Tuyo—tuyo—hasta la muerte!”
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
The color of the branchlet, its lustre, the presence of minute hairs, etc., are often suggestions for determining species.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Under a hand-lens it is seen to consist of tiny, upright, brown stalks which are branched at the tips, each branchlet being crowned with a naked head of pale-coloured spores.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
King they hailed a branchlet, shaped to fare, Weighted so, like quaking shingle spume, When his blood's own heir Ripened in the womb!
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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