branchlets

Through the catkin's core is a long green stem from which radiate tiny branchlets.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

It navigates and lands all at once, between protruding branchlets onto the main branch.

Lunch Bird Roberto C. Garcia 2011

At right angles to the barbs are interlocking branchlets called barbules.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

And on the barbicels of some feathers are even tinier branchlets, microscopic hamuli, which allow even more air to be trapped in the feather.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

Compared to subalpine fir, grand fir occurs at lower elevations, has a wider crown, and usually produces broad spreading lower limbs with beautifully even secondary branchlets.

Grand fir 2009

The love between two friends pours forth like water from fountains, and that friendship resembles a rose growing between two "mind-branchlets."

Great Regulars: She admits to making numerous errors Rus Bowden 2009

The love between two friends pours forth like water from fountains, and that friendship resembles a rose growing between two "mind-branchlets."

Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Only the branchlets and minuscule leaves are exposed to form a dense cushion no more than 1 centimeter (cm) above ground.

North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert 2008

I believe that branchlets of the Colgate-Palmolive money and the Campbell Soup money lived in town, too, but even they went to the public schools.

Class Is in Session Emma Goldman 2005

I believe that branchlets of the Colgate-Palmolive money and the Campbell Soup money lived in town, too, but even they went to the public schools.

Archive 2005-03-01 Emma Goldman 2005