Definition of branch

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Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant..

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Capuchin :: Capuchin (n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis..
Stem :: Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry..
Ramify :: Ramify (v. t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme..
Notopodium :: Notopodium (n.) The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.
Hippocampus :: Hippocampus (n.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
Lycopodiaceous :: Lycopodiaceous (a.) Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves..
Palm Sunday :: Palm Sunday () The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way..
Uniramous :: Uniramous (a.) Having but one branch.
Blight :: Blight (n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects..
Trident :: Trident (n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction..
Pleach :: Pleach (v. t.) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock..
Standard :: Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally..
Branchial :: Branchial (a.) Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.
Disbranch :: Disbranch (v.) To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.
Nosology :: Nosology (n.) That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases..
Stress :: Streptothrix (n.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted..
Electro-chemistry :: Electro-chemistry (n.) That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.
Stool :: Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Asterophyllite :: Asterophyllite (n.) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites..
Advancer :: Advancer (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler.
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