branchlet

Example Sentences

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The bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman

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

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

Under a hand-lens it is seen to consist of tiny, upright, brown stalks which are branched at the tips, each branchlet being crowned with a naked head of pale-coloured spores.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" 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 Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)