branch
noun
a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
branchy
-
a word derived from
branch.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
For Casaus, this often involves stacking visually distinct levels of, say, prickly cactuses and wispy flowering bushes, or branchy ornamental trees and soft grasses, against a balustrade or facade.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
"In neurology, there is the concept of the final common pathway: a vast, branchy tree of nerves with impulses flowing down into a narrow trunk."
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw snakes, pigtails, branchy, forked things that looked like the letter Y, and they noticed squiggles like a small g, and bends like the letter U, and loopy 6s.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
He closed the spout and raised the lantern to inspect the branchy walls of the chaha’oh.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
Well, they had been riding home cheerfully, all chattering and bloomy and branchy, when Sir Meliagrance had leaped up at their feet, in an ambush.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
