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Branching   /brˈæntʃɪŋ/   Listen
Branching

adjective
1.
Having branches.  Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous.
2.
Resembling the branches of a tree.
noun
1.
The act of branching out or dividing into branches.  Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification.



Branch

verb
(past & past part. branched; pres. part. branching)
1.
Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.  Synonym: ramify.
2.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate.



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"Branching" Quotes from Famous Books



... to two scions of each seedling reached sufficient size and vigor to survive the following winter without damage. None of the scions branched in 1944, and all failed to show symptoms of the disease. Early in 1945 profuse branching occurred on the one surviving scion of seedling number 39.03-P2, and by midsummer excessive proliferation of the buds of primary shoots had resulted in the formation of a mistletoe-like growth characteristic of the disease. Scions of the two other seedlings, ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... October and November 1914, structural remains thought to be Roman, including 'an old Roman fireplace, circular in shape, with stone flues branching out', were noted in the garden of St. Mary's vicarage. The real meaning of the find ...
— Roman Britain in 1914 • F. Haverfield

... hypothesis of the transmutation of species, partly by his general cosmological and geological views; partly by the conception of a graduated, though irregularly branching, scale of being, which had arisen out of his profound study of plants and of the lower forms of animal life, Lamarck, whose general line of thought often closely resembles that of De Maillet, made a great advance upon the crude and merely speculative ...
— The Origin of Species - From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860 • Thomas H. Huxley

... to the village passed at the back of the wood. Branching off from it, an old path leading through the trees and round the edge of the lake had once been frequently used as a short cut from the village to the house, but was now badly grown up and indeed superseded by the new drive from the western ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee, With branching antlers of a sprightly stag, Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold, Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound With purple ...
— The Bucolics and Eclogues • Virgil


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