Also 8 branchilet. [f. as prec. + -LET.] A little branch, a shoot; in Bot. a smaller branch growing from a larger one (rendering L. ramulus); fig. a small division or offshoot.
1731. Bailey, Branchilet, a little Branch.
1820. Lindley, Monogr. Roses, Introd. 21. I have found it necessary to make a distinction between branches and branchlets.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 279. The dorsal branch divides at the carpus into two branchlets.
1883. E. Arnold, Nt. Slaughter, in Ind. Idylls, 241. There perched A thousand crows … some on branchlets.
