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Recent Examples of branchlet
The photo of the branchlet tips shows the male pollen cones of cedar, which occur at the tips.
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oregonlive,
16 Apr. 2022
Only lemon trees require other pruning, to thin out twiggy branchlets so the plant can put more energy into vigorous branches, and to let light into the plant.
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Pam Peirce,
SFChronicle.com,
11 Oct. 2019
Roth’s weeping fig is a classic example: braided trunk, delicately drooping branchlets, and a dense shock of glossy leaves about 2 inches long .
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Los Angeles Times,
15 Aug. 2019
oregonlive,
16 Apr. 2022
Only lemon trees require other pruning, to thin out twiggy branchlets so the plant can put more energy into vigorous branches, and to let light into the plant.
—
Pam Peirce,
SFChronicle.com,
11 Oct. 2019
Roth’s weeping fig is a classic example: braided trunk, delicately drooping branchlets, and a dense shock of glossy leaves about 2 inches long .
—
Los Angeles Times,
15 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for branchlet
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Photos also showed the bees crowding on nearby trees, weighing down on some tree limbs and branches.
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There are also two bear pendants with movable limbs — the $32 Felix and the $52 Frankie.
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Shoots them off the balance, catch-and-shoot, spot ups — just in various ways.
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The series filmed all across North Texas during its eight-month shoot in the region.
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But aside from gifting Zane with spurs, Beth’s more or less a spectator through all of the Jackson family drama.
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Yeezy works into the evening, hacking at jagged spurs of plastic and tapping away with a special brass gunsmith’s hammer.
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JPMorgan upgraded Visteon to overweight from neutral, saying the company is uniquely positioned to drive significant outgrowth with automotive and related verticals.
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The committee was created explicitly to counter Leading the Future and was an outgrowth of a nonprofit Carson helped fund to push for AI regulation.
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In a statement to CNN, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, the military branch which runs its drone operations, said that over the past year the number of mid-range strike missions had risen 28-fold.
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To alleviate these shortages, prisoners supplemented the farm and labor forces at branch camps throughout Arkansas, mostly in the Delta and southern regions.
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The offshoot The Lego Ninjago Movie, Will Arnett’s The Lego Batman Movie.
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Many rebel groups are offshoots of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which had been fighting to overthrow the government since the 1960s and had been the country's largest guerrilla organization.
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Then, place a small twig under the rim to create a small gap.
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Train the lightweight annual vines up a simple teepee or twig trellis.
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“Branchlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branchlet. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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