branchlet
Example Sentences
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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
Or a summer-shoot may appear on vigorous branches of any species with the result of converting a uninodal spring-shoot into an imperfect multinodal branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
The trees, ashes and elms, that bordered a field adjoining the kail-yard, stood strangely out against this glow; every branchlet and twig seemed traced in ink—the blackest of the black.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon
One single lateral branchlet of a tendril, estimated to be at least ten years old, was still elastic and supported a weight of exactly two pounds.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Darwin, Charles
Each season's growth of leaves hangs from the branchlet like a long beard, from which the tree receives, in some localities, the name "Pino barba caida."
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell