Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, a branch of the main trunk of a nerve or blood-vessel which itself gives off branches, but proceeds some distance before losing its identity.

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Examples

  • Then he climbed down a trunklet to the ground, and made his way out of the tree.

    Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

  • Corny thought it would be splendid to have a jumping-rope made of a banyan root, or rather trunklet.

    A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868

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