branchlet

Example Sentences

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

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

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 Shaw, George Russell

Nancy's skirts rustled among the greenery; her cheeks were touched, as if with a caress, by many a drooping branchlet; in places, Tarrant had to hold the tangle above her while she stooped to pass.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

King they hailed a branchlet, shaped to fare, Weighted so, like quaking shingle spume, When his blood's own heir Ripened in the womb!

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

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