branchlet
Example Sentences
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She felt among the wood piled ready, found a slender sliver of a cleft branchlet, and methodically ploughed the ashes across and across.
From The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White
Leaves from 8 to 15 cm. long, serrulate; stomata ventral only; resin-ducts external, external and medial, or medial, all three conditions sometimes occurring in leaves of the same branchlet.
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
Very weird pines these were, chiefly covered with closely-packed dead foliage, with a living tuft of dark green at the end of each branchlet.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
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
