Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small branch.
- noun A subdivision of a branch that is near or at the tip of the branch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little branch; a twig; a subdivision of a branch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little branch; a twig.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
branch ; atwig orsprig
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
Etymologies
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Examples
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The full moon is her face263and the branchlet is her shape,
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The full moon is her face [FN#263] and the branchlet is her shape,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Said the Caliph, “Bring her to me;” and forth came a damsel, as she were a branchlet of willow, with seducing eyes and eyebrows set like twin bows; and on her head she wore a crown of red gold crusted with pearls and jewelled, under which was a fillet bearing this couplet wrought in letters of chrysolite,
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The Wazir had a daughter, a virgin of extreme loveliness, as she were a fleeing gazelle or a bending branchlet, and it chanced that she sat one day at the lattice aforesaid and behold, she heard Nur al-Din, singing and solacing himself under his sorrows by improvising these verses,
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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.
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He plucked a spruce branchlet and stripped away the needles.
The Lake House Patterson, James, 1947- 2003
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Ordinarily the fallen needle — or branchlet — of a beach oak (CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA) is absolutely passive.
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Gradually the most obstinate branchlet with its spray of leaves is drawn into juxtaposition with the main part of the mansion.
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To prepare the vegetable, remove the small leaflets from the main branch by pressing on the branchlet between the fingers and pulling.
Chapter 7 1999
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At one time, a real stream of water, perhaps a branchlet of the river that tumbled down the cliff further on, had cut a channel through here, forming the cave.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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