branchlet

Example Sentences

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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

The bark utensils will wear longer if a slender rootlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with the "over-and-over" stitch, to the edge of the article.

From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Beard, Lina

The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

King they hailed a branchlet, shaped to fare, Weighted so, like quaking shingle spume, When his blood's own heir Ripened in the womb!

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

He who took a branch from off it, Took prosperity unceasing, What was broken from the summit, Gave unending skill in magic; He who broke a leafy branchlet, Gathered with it love unending.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)