branchlet
Example Sentences
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Then I stretched my hand a little forward and plucked a branchlet from a great thorn-bush, and its trunk cried out, "Why dost thou rend me?"
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
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 Peter Gray
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
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 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 Edward Step
