What is "branched"

Usage examples of "branched".

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.

She branched off at once, away from the Basset Hill museum and its potential director.

Although she hurried to catch up, this new tunnel branched at sudden and awkward intervals, without benefit of geometric chambers, and by the seventh or eighth branching she lost track of her guide except for the fading nimbus trailing behind it.

I attribute to inheritance from a common progenitor, for it can rarely have happened that natural selection will have modified several species, fitted to more or less widely-different habits, in exactly the same manner: and as these so-called generic characters have been inherited from a remote period, since that period when the species first branched off from their common progenitor, and subsequently have not varied or come to differ in any degree, or only in a slight degree, it is not probable that they should vary at the present day.

Now and then another vehicle passed us, but once the tunnel had branched and rebranched half a dozen times, no further traffic appeared.

He was able to talk some backers into putting up the capital for a chain of motels in the South, parleyed the money from that into a shipbuilding yard, branched out into importing fruit from South America in his own ships, opened some processing and packaging plants, and he was on his way.

Southern Baptist Alabamans, branched out to the predominantly black neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

A great central gallery was at its core, from which smaller passageways branched, and even smaller ones from those.

Here it branched, a second trail leading southward along the ridge to the partially clear lands of the Aute Valley.

She took the half- burned candles out of the heavy branched candlestick.

They had stopped at the battlefield of Culloden and after that they had branched off on to the road to Grantown-on-Spey, but soon left it for a narrow road from Balloch which crossed the River Nairn and brought them within reach of the three Clava cairns.

Sulla clapped him on the back and went straight on down the hill of the Clivus Victoriae to the spot where the alley in which his house lay branched off it.

A new set of tunnels branched forth from each of these central crypts to begin the process anew.

We have described several species in our list of fungi, and will only say that these are fleshy fungi, either simple or branched.

Along the heartwood they ran, for nearly a quarter mile before it finally branched.