A small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year.
1 The bud spreads into a little branchlet and bears the flowers at the tip.
2 Gradually the most obstinate branchlet with its spray of leaves is drawn into juxtaposition with the main part of the mansion.
3 She felt among the wood piled ready, found a slender sliver of a cleft branchlet , and methodically ploughed the ashes across and across.
4 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 .
5 The branches and branchlets are tense and straight, crowded, adpressed and acute.
6 It was then subdivided into branchlets , and finally into individual twigs.
7 These branchlets look like parts of a large compound, flat leaf.
8 It is well branched, the flowers being clustered at the ends of the branchlets .
9 The flat, drooping, plume-like branchlets hang edgewise, giving the trees a thin, open, airy look.
10 Fallen branchlets snapped beneath my heedless feet and the sounds rang in my ears like pistol-shots.
11 Before the tendril is mature, the terminal branchlets cohere, and the hooks are curled closely inwards.
12 Eleven star-shaped cells from the enamel of a tooth, joined together by their branchlets . )
13 A good crop of these branchlets was gathered in and stored in the cellar of Fort Hope.
14 The materials consist of small fine branchlets of weeds, and the inside is neatly lined with grass.
15 The axillary buds develop near the ends of the branchlets , forming apparent whorls of branches around the trunk.
16 The leaves are arranged in four rows, in alternately opposite pairs, and seem to make up the fan-like branchlets .
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