branchlet

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Capillitium of long brown threads suspended from the apical disk, the threads branched a few times, occasionally anastomosing by a short, transverse branchlet, the free ends often forked.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

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 Shaw, George Russell

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

She felt among the wood piled ready, found a slender sliver of a cleft branchlet, and methodically ploughed the ashes across and across.

From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas