branch
noun
a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
unbranching
-
a word derived from
branch.
Example Sentences
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As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent ...
From Time Magazine Archive
As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent —Australopithecus, Homo erectus, modern man—one following the other in logical order.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tall, unbranching gray spruce-trunks rose round it like the pillars of a colonnade.
From Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Too great vigor is indicated by long, leafy, unbranching shoots.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
They are usually preserved as branching or unbranching carbonized bodies, tree-like, leaf-like or rod-like in shape, their edges regularly toothed or denticulated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
