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  1. noun A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.
  2. noun A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.
  3. noun Something that resembles a branch of a tree, as in form or function, as:
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  • Only five others of the twelve-strong delegation from her branch were at the table. —  Conferences are Murder - McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 04
  • This branch are a people who never had among them one man eminent either for good or ill: however, have all along kept their heads just above water, not by a prudent and regular economy, but by expedients in the matches they have made in to their house. —  Isaac Bickerstaff
  • Resting on the branch was a large woven basket, with a wicker door on one side. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • Mr. Symonds, in his Renaissance of the Fine Arts , speaks of the Greek revival as entirely an age of sculpture; but the solitary glance into the more perishable art of painting among the Greeks, to be seen at Cortona, reveals the exquisite perfection to which this branch was also brought. —  Fra Bartolommeo
  • Officials of the University of California branch are apologizing for an email goof. —  NBC2 News
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tree ·  bough ·  leave ·  bush ·  trunk ·  root ·  plant ·  limb ·  growth ·  form ·  field ·  rock

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branch:   branches ·  branching ·  branched
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French branche, from Late Latin branca, paw, perhaps of Celtic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also braunch; from Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, brance, French branche, branch, = Provencal branca, also branc, = Old Spanish and OPg. branca = Italian branca, branch, claw, = Wall, brăncă, hand, fore foot (later G. branke, dial, pranke, claw, pranke, brante, prante, a paw, especially of a bear), from Middle Latin branca, claw; perhaps of Celtic origin: cf. Breton branc, an arm, = Welsh braich, an arm, a branch, = Latin brāchium. bracchium, arm, branch, claw: see brace,n.
  2. from Middle English braunchen, from Old French branchir = Provencal brancar, branch, = Italian brancare, grip; from the noun.
 

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