branchlet

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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

I separated the branchlet into two equal parts: one I placed in my bosom; the other, having fervently kissed, I enclosed in a folded sheet, upon which I wrote the words— “Tuyo—tuyo—hasta la muerte!”

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne

The length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The first group, Ectocarpeæ, is composed of thread-like jointed plants, the fructification of which consists of external spores, sometimes formed by the swelling of a branchlet.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter