branchlet

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The presence of wax, as a bloom on the branchlet, is associated with trees in arid localities, especially Mexico, where it is very common.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Very weird pines these were, chiefly covered with closely-packed dead foliage, with a living tuft of dark green at the end of each branchlet.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison

Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

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 Norton, Charles Eliot

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir