A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

Usage examples of branch.

Gu suggested that each Lodge should affiliate with the branch of the province in which it was located.

She stalked on and shortly came to the Tube branch leading to her allotment, and went down to see how her own crops were doing.

The sexual organs are developed in groups at the apices, the antheridial group usually terminating the main axis while the archegonia are borne on a lateral branch.

She yanked out the rest of the flowers in the arrangement and started from scratch, using a single crimson anthurium and three nearly bare branches.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

Follow the main arroyo, take the first right-hand branch you come to, and wait there for me.

It has required that appointees be representative of a political party, of an industry, of a geographic region, or of a particular branch of the Government.

By studying both fossil and living archosaurus, paleontologists have shown that the archosaurs split into two branches, or lineages, in the Early Triassic.

Branch or no Branch, if someone more cunning than she had gained access then they could debate their cleverness with Assh and Frey first.

Block Fixings -- Astragal Joints -- Pipe Fixings -- Large Branch Joints -- Large Underhand Joints -- Solders -- Autogenous Soldering or Lead Burning -- Index.

She was also tutored at the appropriate age in astrography, galactic history, various branches of the physical sciences, the workings of the Vegan civic administrational structure, and basic legal precepts.

She kept up with the discussions, but to her this branch of astrophysics was like a French Impressionist painting of a cow: suggestive, artful maybe, but some things never looked quite right and it was in the end not a reliable source of nourishing milk.

From his right hand sprouted thin branches hung with miniature autumnal leaves.

This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.

Trailing shoots of the bougainvillea swayed in the night breeze, and a branch of Banksia roses struck him, the clusters of blossom making a scented rain upon his face.