branchlet
Example Sentences
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Capillitium of long brown threads suspended from the apical disk, the threads branched a few times, occasionally anastomosing by a short, transverse branchlet, the free ends often forked.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The workman, placing the gimlet above the long, slender branchlet of wood, bores half the length, and then reverses the position to operate upon the other half.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
She felt among the wood piled ready, found a slender sliver of a cleft branchlet, and methodically ploughed the ashes across and across.
From The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White
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 length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
