branchlet
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The bark utensils will wear longer if a slender rootlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with the "over-and-over" stitch, to the edge of the article.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard
The color of the branchlet, its lustre, the presence of minute hairs, etc., are often suggestions for determining species.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
A maiden shining bright of blee, As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred, Which Hamadryad deity As toy for joyance aye befed 25With humour of the dew.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Then I stretched my hand a little forward and plucked a branchlet from a great thorn-bush, and its trunk cried out, "Why dost thou rend me?"
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
The first group, Ectocarpeæ, is composed of thread-like jointed plants, the fructification of which consists of external spores, sometimes formed by the swelling of a branchlet.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
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