branchlet
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The bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church
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
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
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 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
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