branchlet
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The color of the branchlet, its lustre, the presence of minute hairs, etc., are often suggestions for determining species.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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 Charles Darwin
P. koraiensis resembles P. cembra in leaf and branchlet but not in the cone.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Under a hand-lens it is seen to consist of tiny, upright, brown stalks which are branched at the tips, each branchlet being crowned with a naked head of pale-coloured spores.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
The trees, ashes and elms, that bordered a field adjoining the kail-yard, stood strangely out against this glow; every branchlet and twig seemed traced in ink—the blackest of the black.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
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