tree branch
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rama
- As spring arrived, new leaves began to sprout on the tree branch that I had pruned last year.
- fallen tree branches
It's like imagine you spend your whole life on a tree branch.
- It's like imagine you spend your whole life on a tree branch.
- I just want to it's not a brand new idea, but could think about how you can bend a stick or tree branch to a certain point until it breaks.
- I'm like, what the hell I get out there is a tree branch growing horizontal in my blind spot.
- It looks like maybe some sort of pine tree branches, Rosemary, maybe pine tree branches.
- These little old stem cells, healthy stem cells around these stem cells had started to become all spindly like tree branches.
- If she wants to jump off a fucking tree branch, you know, an elbow drop, a couple of fucking snot nosed cats that are trying to get up, get up at her, then that's OK.
Examples
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A tree branch broke above me as I was collecting wild mushrooms.
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And he waved a tree branch at me.
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Is that a tree branch in his hand, or what?
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A tree branch came through the other one last summer.
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One day in the country and you get hit in the eye with a tree branch.
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A young child might handle more than one tree branch per day.
Academic text (2004) -
I was cutting a tree branch with a knife and I cut myself by accident.
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The wind had cracked the dead tree branch and knocked it onto my back.
Fiction book (1996) -
Small, white flowers blossomed on a tree branch on the gentle slope.
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The only sound was the gentle tapping of the tree branches against the dormer windows.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
A part of a tree that grows from the trunk
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2.5
A large branch of a tree that sticks out from the trunk
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A small thin branch from a tree or bush
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6.5
A large branch growing from the trunk of a tree
A small limb that grows from a larger limb of a tree or plant
A small thin branch that grows from a larger branch
How Thick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a limb that grows from the trunk or main bough of a tree' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tree' (a tall perennial plant) with 'branch' (a woody arm growing from a tree trunk); a learner who knows both words will immediately recognise this referent. This compositional pattern is literal and cross-linguistically common, so it is easily understood by B1 learners.
Etymology
Tree branch is a limb that grows out from a tree trunk and holds leaves, flowers, or fruit, so picture a bird sitting on it or apples hanging from it. So tree branch means the 'part of a tree that holds leaves or fruit'.