branchlet
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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
Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Each season's growth of leaves hangs from the branchlet like a long beard, from which the tree receives, in some localities, the name "Pino barba caida."
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
P. koraiensis resembles P. cembra in leaf and branchlet but not in the cone.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw