More generally: a straight, slender shoot or branch, growing on or cut from a tree or bush.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > flexible and slender (9) rodc1275 More generally: a straight, slender shoot or branch, growing on or cut from a tree or bush. wanda1300 A young shoot, a slender stem of a shrub or tree, a sapling; a slender branch or twig. Obsolete exc. poetic (rare) and dialect. †under the wand: in… wicker?1507 Such a twig or small branch, as part of the living plant. ? Obsolete. whip1585 An object resembling a whip: a slender flexible branch of a plant; a twig, sprig, switch; a collection or growth of such branches. switch1616 A thin flexible shoot cut from a tree. sway1630 A small pliable twig or rod, esp. one used in thatching (see quot. 1949); a switch. dialect. withe1817 gen. A pliant twig or bough. Subcategories:— as a type of suppleness (1) — tree characterized by (1) |
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