branchlet
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The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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
Then stretched I forth my hand a little forward, And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn; And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?"
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The length of the branchlet is much influenced by different soils and climates.
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
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