branchlet

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Or a summer-shoot may appear on vigorous branches of any species with the result of converting a uninodal spring-shoot into an imperfect multinodal branchlet.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The color of the branchlet, its lustre, the presence of minute hairs, etc., are often suggestions for determining species.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

The trees, ashes and elms, that bordered a field adjoining the kail-yard, stood strangely out against this glow; every branchlet and twig seemed traced in ink—the blackest of the black.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon

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 bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman