branchlet
Example Sentences
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The leaves are little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward
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
Under a hand-lens it is seen to consist of tiny, upright, brown stalks which are branched at the tips, each branchlet being crowned with a naked head of pale-coloured spores.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
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
