branchlet
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Each branch and branchlet is terminated by a lengthening raceme of flowers.
From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various
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 A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
He who took a branch from off it, Took prosperity unceasing, What was broken from the summit, Gave unending skill in magic; He who broke a leafy branchlet, Gathered with it love unending.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
The branchlet furnishes evidence of the section to which the species belongs, for the bract-bases persist after the bracts have fallen away.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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