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单词 branchlet
释义 branchlet|ˈbrɑːnʃlɪt, -æ-|
Also 8 branchilet.
[f. as prec. + -let.]
A little branch, a shoot; in Bot. a smaller branch growing from a larger one (rendering L. ramulus); fig. a small division or offshoot.
1731Bailey, Branchilet, a little Branch.1820Lindley Monogr. Roses Introd. 21, I have found it necessary to make a distinction between branches and branchlets.1881Mivart Cat 279 The dorsal branch divides at the carpus into two branchlets.1883E. Arnold Nt. Slaughter in Ind. Idylls 241 There perched A thousand crows..some on branchlets.
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