Definition of branch

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Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family..

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Bicameral :: Bicameral (a.) Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches..
Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..
Druid :: Druid (n.) One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..
Quenouille Training :: Quenouille training () A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
Arthropomata :: Arthropomata (n. pl.) One of the orders of Branchiopoda. See Branchiopoda.
Underbranch :: Underbranch (n.) A lower branch.
Chrematistics :: Chrematistics (n.) The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy..
Branchlet :: Branchlet (n.) A little branch; a twig.
Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..
Orchidology :: Orchidology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
Sparse :: Sparse (superl.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like..
Paleobotany :: Paleobotany (n.) That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.
Bez-antler :: Bez-antler (n.) The second branch of a stag's horn.
Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture..
Bourgeon :: Bourgeon (v. i.) To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch..
Sea Lemon :: Sea lemon () Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body..
Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara..
Symposiac :: Sympodium (n.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine..
Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..
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