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
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Then he climbed down a trunklet to the ground, and made his way out of the tree.
Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988
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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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