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US
/ˈbɹæntʃɫət/
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NOUN
- a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
How To Use branchlet In A Sentence
- The shoots grow off of longer horizontal or drooping branchlets.
- Reproduction and dispersion are doubtless accomplished by the caducous branchlets.
- Fig. 263, Multinodal branchlet bearing lateral and subterminal conelets and a ripe cone. The Genus Pinus
- It is a very attractive, narrow evergreen with upsweeping branches and drooping branchlets.
- The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/16 inch subsessile or pedicelled, always appressed to the rachis solitary in the upper portions of the branches, and two to five on the branchlets in the lower portion, pale, green or rarely copper coloured, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, caducous or glumes one and two persistent. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The _panicle_ is ovate or ovate-oblong, on a short, smooth peduncle, usually open and stiff; branches are usually many, sub-solitary or fascicled, spreading or suberect, capillary, stiff, again branching from near the base and about 3 inches long; _rachis_ is angular, with glands and tufts of sparse white hairs at the angles of branches and branchlets. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The branchlets are crinite.
- In a second experiment, branchlets were excised from harvested broccoli heads and placed on moistened sterile pads inside plastic pillows.
- And he closed the privileged arm of the bridegroom round her waist, that had the yieldingness of the willow-branchlet, the flowingness of the summer sea-wave, and seemed as 'twere melting honey-like at the first gentle pressure; she leaning her head shyly on his shoulder, yet confiding in his faithfulness; it was that she was shy of the great bliss in her bosom, and was made timid by the fervour of her affection; as is sung: The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
- The minute branchlets of the yellow thallus produce the irregularly radiated and crinite appearance of the margins of the fruit.