Lexic.us

Definition of Branched

1. Adjective. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches. "Horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"

Definition of Branched

1. Adjective. Having branches. ¹

2. Verb. (past of branch) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Branched

1. branch [v] - See also: branch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Branched

Literary usage of Branched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"FR 2:388, where Taplin says it has a tufted much-branched habit, dark green Ivs. about Vain, wide, not so stiff as most species; spines short, whitish. ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"A smooth perennial ; the slender stem 3-8 dm. high, simple or branched from ... Perennial bushy-branched smooth herbs, pale green, with the aspect of Aster ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"While the typical straight or slightly curved bacilli are, of course, much the more numerous, the branched and intermediate forms are present in almost ..."

4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... branched, and the branches l>earing numerous smaller (5 or 6 Hues long) loosely disposed ami sunn-times slender-peduncled heads, having fewer bracts to ..."

5. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1806)
"Frond capillary, once or twice branched, zigzag. Ultimate branches alternately two-ranked, spreading. Joints cylindrical, elongated, with obsolete ..."

6. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Stem branched from the base, branches 1-2 in., slender. Leave» \-\ in., green, rather fleshy, nerves indistinct; petiole half as long. Flowers microscopic. ..."

7. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1911)
"branched Transmission Lines. — In many cases power generated in a power house ... branched transmission line. independent transmis- sion lines are used for ..."

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