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- adjective resembling a
branch of a tree
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Examples
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At the darkest recess of the room there seemed a crack or fissure leading down and away into dirt; and from within that shadowed hole faintly visible were a pair of twitchy branchlike probes.
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Two victims of the night laid still in the trail with their discarded long, branchlike objects tossed to their side.
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Most lung cancers occur in the branchlike system of the bronchial tubes.
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He held up the long branchlike map Venera had taken from the tourist station.
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His right hand clutched the end of a speaking tube and he alternated between sighting along the branchlike map and peering through the periscope.
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He clasped four of his branchlike arms behind his squat, wide body and gestured with the remaining two.
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A rare carnivorous plant, the black willow masked itself as log or tree and preyed on hapless creatures it lulled to sleep beneath its spreading, branchlike ten'tacles.
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Using forceps, he stripped several of the branchlike projections or “barbs” from both sides of the shaft and, stationing himself at the stereoscopic microscope, placed them on a thin film of xylene that he had dropped on a slide.
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Using forceps, he stripped several of the branchlike projections or “barbs” from both sides of the shaft and, stationing himself at the stereoscopic microscope, placed them on a thin film of xylene that he had dropped on a slide.
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Using forceps, he stripped several of the branchlike projections or “barbs” from both sides of the shaft and, stationing himself at the stereoscopic microscope, placed them on a thin film of xylene that he had dropped on a slide.
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