branchlet
Example Sentences
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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
Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
The presence of wax, as a bloom on the branchlet, is associated with trees in arid localities, especially Mexico, where it is very common.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Capillitium of long brown threads suspended from the apical disk, the threads branched a few times, occasionally anastomosing by a short, transverse branchlet, the free ends often forked.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
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 Shaw, George Russell
