branchlet

Example Sentences

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Nothing stirred; each leaf hung motionless from its branchlet as they passed.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

The uninodal spring-shoot may remain so throughout the growing season and become a uninodal branchlet.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

He who took a branch from off it, Took prosperity unceasing, What was broken from the summit, Gave unending skill in magic; He who broke a leafy branchlet, Gathered with it love unending.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

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 White, Edward Lucas

The first group, Ectocarpeæ, is composed of thread-like jointed plants, the fructification of which consists of external spores, sometimes formed by the swelling of a branchlet.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter