branchlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of branchlet
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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 George Meredith
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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
Nancy's skirts rustled among the greenery; her cheeks were touched, as if with a caress, by many a drooping branchlet; in places, Tarrant had to hold the tangle above her while she stooped to pass.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
Leaves from 8 to 15 cm. long, serrulate; stomata ventral only; resin-ducts external, external and medial, or medial, all three conditions sometimes occurring in leaves of the same branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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