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shed with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

red on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. Dunglison.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

r segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.

A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.] Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chi…

Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees. Gray.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

The branching forth, as of trees.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. Gray.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

A branching like a. fork.

A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form.

A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell. [Written also hairbell.] E'en the light harebell raised its head. Sir W. Scott .