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branch
noun
1 branch
A division of some larger or more complex organization:
— A branch of Congress.
— Botany is a branch of biology.
— The Germanic branch of Indo-European languages.
synonyms: arm, subdivision.
Roget 367:
vegetable,
vegetable kingdom;
flora,
verdure.
plant;
tree,
shrub,
bush;
creeper;
herb,
herbage;
grass.
annual;
perennial,
biennial,
triennial;
exotic.
timber,
forest;
wood,
woodlands;
timberland;
hurst†,
frith†,
holt,
weald†,
park,
chase,
greenwood,
brake,
grove,
copse,
coppice,
bocage†,
tope,
clump of trees,
thicket,
spinet,
spinney;
underwood,
brushwood;
scrub;
boscage,
bosk†,
ceja [Sp.],
chaparal,
motte [U.S.];
arboretum
etc.
371.
bush,
jungle,
prairie;
heath,
heather;
fern,
bracken;
furze,
gorse,
whin;
grass,
turf;
pasture,
pasturage;
turbary†;
sedge,
rush,
weed;
fungus,
mushroom,
toadstool;
lichen,
moss,
conferva†,
mold;
growth;
alfalfa,
alfilaria†,
banyan;
blow,
blowth†;
floret†,
petiole;
pin grass,
timothy,
yam,
yew,
zinnia.
foliage,
branch,
bough,
ramage†,
stem,
tigella†;
spray
etc.
51;
leaf.
flower,
blossom,
bine†;
flowering plant;
timber tree,
fruit tree;
pulse,
legume.
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Dutch: vakgebied, onderafdeling, subafdeling, tak
Polish: władza
2 branch
A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.
Dutch: tak
Polish: gałąź
3 branch
A part of a forked or branching shape:
— He broke off one of the branches.
synonyms: leg, ramification.
Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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Dutch: bedrijfstak, branch, filiaal, tak, vertakking
4 branch
5 branch
A stream or river connected to a larger one.
Dutch: aftakking, arm, zijtak
6 branch
Any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm:
— A branch of the sewer.
synonyms: arm, limb.
Roget 51:
part,
portion;
dose;
item,
particular;
aught,
any;
division,
ward;
subdivision,
section;
chapter,
clause,
count,
paragraph,
verse;
article,
passage;
sector,
segment;
fraction,
fragment;
cantle,
frustum;
detachment,
parcel.
piece [Fr.],
lump,
bit cut,
cutting;
chip,
chunk,
collop†,
slice,
scale;
lamina
etc.
204;
small part;
morsel,
particle
etc.
(smallness)
32;
installment,
dividend;
share
etc.
(allotment)
786.
debris,
odds and ends,
oddments,
detritus;
excerpta†;
member,
limb,
lobe,
lobule,
arm,
wing,
scion,
branch,
bough,
joint,
link,
offshoot,
ramification,
twig,
bush,
spray,
sprig;
runner;
leaf,
leaflet;
stump;
component part
etc.
56;
sarmentum†.
compartment;
department
etc.
(class)
75;
county
etc.
(region)
181.
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Dutch: armen
Polish: ramię
verb
1 branch
Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.
synonym: ramify.
2 branch
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate.
Dutch: gevorkt, afsplitsen, aftakken, vertakken
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