branchlet
Example Sentences
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The length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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 Gordon Stables
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 Charles Darwin
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 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
