branchlet
Example Sentences
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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
Each branch and branchlet is terminated by a lengthening raceme of flowers.
From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various
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 bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church
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
