branchlet
Example Sentences
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Gradually the most obstinate branchlet with its spray of leaves is drawn into juxtaposition with the main part of the mansion.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The fungus of the Poppy is very much more branched than that of the Potato, and every minute branchlet carries a spore.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
Very weird pines these were, chiefly covered with closely-packed dead foliage, with a living tuft of dark green at the end of each branchlet.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
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 George Russell Shaw
He who took a branch from off it, Took prosperity unceasing, What was broken from the summit, Gave unending skill in magic; He who broke a leafy branchlet, Gathered with it love unending.
From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby
