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▪ I. unˈbranched, a.
[un-1 9.]
1. Of trees or plants, their stems, etc.: Not furnished with branches.
1665Rea Flora 96 The Lily Asphodells flower in the end of May;..the unbranched kind is the first and the branched the last. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Palma, The Palm-Tree..hath a single unbranch'd Stalk. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Filix, The unbranched, dentated fern. 1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. (1861) V. 314 Unbranched Upright Bur-reed. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 464 A great hard wood forest tree, which has a tall unbranched stem, terminating in a crown of branches.
2. Not divided into branches; having no ramifications. Chiefly Bot. and Zool.
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 755 Leaves generally unbranched. 1847W. E. Steele Field Bot. 171 Leaves with unbranched mostly parallel ribs. 1857T. Moore Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3) 58 The veins, which are alternate, mostly unbranched, and extending to the margin. 1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1877) 37 A bud-like process is thrown out, which, usually, grows only into a very short unbranched hypha.
▪ II. unˈbranched, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not deprived of branches.
1572L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. (1592) 37 The other sorts of Trees may well passe vnbranched, if they haue not too great or large branches. |