What is "branchlet"

Usage examples of "branchlet".

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.

With his sword he sliced the green shoot of a branchlet, and chewed it as he walked, ambling.

But other nymphs were managing to land right side up or to grab branchlets with their four legs and abdominal claspers and swing themselves around.

Making sure that the lama could see what he was doing, he took out his dagger, cut a branch from a nearby thicket, and proceeded to trim off the twigs and branchlets until only a stout stick remained.

More branchlets over a pile of big leaves made a springy floor, giving them more comfort tonight than they had enjoyed since the accident.

Then he noted their smoothness, the absence of tiny cilia or branchlets capable of extracting water and nutrients from the soil.

Meanwhile Severn, with old newspapers, candle ends, twigs, branchlets, tried to make a fire in the small grate.

I quickly cut off the tip and all the leaf-bearing branchlets, leaving a formidable bare whip, thirty inches long, thick as a finger its whole length and pliant.

Nebula, their leaves and branchlets trapping starlight, the nourishment of drifting plants and animals, the moisture of fat rain clouds.

More carefully, she removed a series of branchlets that obscured the stark grandeur of the juniper.

This little branchlet from the main thoroughfare faced east, and the light in the misty morning was charitable to the dirty buildings, hiding streaked and worn limewash, and dissipating the harsh light of the late summer sun so that cracks and holes could not cast such strong shadows.

But other nymphs were managing to land right side up or to grab branchlets with their four legs and abdominal claspers and swing themselves around.