branchlet

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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

The leaves are little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

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

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 Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)