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subbranch

n. 1 A branch that is itself an offshoot of a branch of something. 2 Part of a branch.

Usage examples of "subbranch".

Some of the letters had been smudged, others missing, but sufficient had remained to inform Blade that he was outside a division of the Minnesota State Hospital, a subbranch called The Minnesota Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

It took about ten minutes for their team to empty out all the subbranches in that area.

There was nothing to see out there anymore except Yggdrasil itself mile after mile of great twisting subbranches and carpets of leaves, lit up by the banks of spotlights that were trained on them from the shaft of the probe: not only to give Yggdrasil a sense of its own rotation, but to provide the human passengers with a sense of place in a universe that otherwise had gone blank.

Man himself would not have survived long, but a number of subbranches might have evolved to fit different ecological niches.

They seemed to be transfer deposits from subbranches, all in used bills.

From a basically circular arc, craggy shapes projected both toward the star and away from it, splitting into branches, then subbranches, and so on till the eye lost track of the smallest.

There was nothing to see out there anymore except Yggdrasil itself—mile after mile of great twisting subbranches and carpets of leaves, lit up by the banks of spotlights that were trained on them from the shaft of the probe: not only to give Yggdrasil a sense of its own rotation, but to provide the human passengers with a sense of place in a universe that otherwise had gone blank.