branchlet
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The girl is soft of speech, fair of form, like a branchlet of basil, with teeth like chamomile-petals and hair like halters wherefrom to hang hearts.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
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
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 Barker, Edward Harrison