noun
definition
A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
example
They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
verb
definition
To beat with twigs.
Examples of twig in a Sentence
If I could ever find the twig he sits upon!
The anatomy of the axis is essentially similar to that of a young Calamarian twig, with some variations in detail.
Portion of twig with discoloured patches, caused by the fungus.
In the autumn you are able to see little brown swellings on every twig.
Posts by The VERY novice gardener Help, my Japanese Cherry looks like a twig, is it dead!
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The cortical tissues gradually shrink and dry up, turning brown and black in patches or all over, and when at length the cambium and medullary ray tissues dry up the whole twig dies off.
The remains of a similar bridge exist at Janglache; but there are no wooden or twig suspension bridges over the Tsanpo.
It is only in the rare cases where a very young twig is preserved that the primary structure of the stem is found unaltered.
This Fungus stimulates the main twig to shoot out more twigs than usual; the mycelium then enters each incipient twig and stimulates it to a repetition of the process, and so in the course of years large broom-like tufts result, often markedly different from the normal.
Bronze sickles could have been better employed to collect fodder (most probably leaf or twig foddering) for working animals, especially horses.
A twig cut for indoors will scent a room with its spicy fragrance.
Trees can also be purchased online but you are likely to get little more than a twig with roots that can be easily shipped and planted.
Small clusters of nuts randomly placed throughout the wreath then topped with glittering berries and a cross-bones twig effect is very pretty.
At the end of each twig is a membrane pierced by pores, and a number of cilia depend into the lumen of the tube; these cilia maintain a constant motion.
The dorsal branch sends a blind twig into each of the diverticula of the dorsal mantle-sinus, the ventral branch supplies the nephridia and neighbouring parts before reaching the ventral lobe of the mantle.
We seem to be justified in assuming that there are many movements of stretching and posturing possible to caterpillars, and that some caterpillars had a congenital fortuitous tendency to one position, some to another, and, finally that among all the variety of habitual movements thus exhibited one has been selected and perpetuated because it coincided with the necessary conditions of safety, since it happened to give the caterpillar an increased resemblance to a twig.
The canal of the cervix is about an inch long, and is spindle-shaped when looked at from in front; its anterior and posterior walls are in contact, and its lining mucous membrane is raised into a pattern which, from its likeness to a cypress twig, is called the arbor vitae.
If there.s any part of you that thinks I won.t snap your neck like a twig in a hurricane—
The dark spots on the scar, mark where the vascular bundles which carried the sap passed through from the twig into the leaf.
Then the monsters shivered in the cold night; one snapped a twig with his heavy boot.
Anything in nature - a bare twig against the sky - can lighten my mood.
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The key is based on the arrangement of leaves on a twig OR features of a winter twig without leaves.
Drill a hole into the top of a fir tree twig to create the trunk.
The early use of the word is for a twig, shoot, cutting or sapling, which was the meaniiig of Lat.
The eggs are enclosed in a case attached to a twig or stone and containing many chambers.
One sits on the twig of a tree, just beneath our window, and he fills the air with his glad songs.
Ay, every leaf and twig and stone and cobweb sparkles now at mid-afternoon as when covered with dew in a spring morning.
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.
The rasp of his hand against the material made him almost miss the approaching footsteps and snap of a twig.
Toys All bunnies are given a twig ball, a straw plait and a tunnel in their shed.
Stuck on a twig, they waved in the wind like a tattered flag for years.
For a back to nature design, use a twig or branch from the yard as a curtain rod.
You can take a small twig or tree branch, set it in a secure base and spray the twig white.
Using colorful ribbons, thread through and eye loop and then tie each egg onto the painted twig, Make sure when you tied the ribbon onto the tree that you do so with a nice bow.
Use green Easter basket grass and make a small bird's nest, add a small twig and several candy eggs.
Use a hot glue gun to attach a red, yellow or blue bird on the twig just above the nest.
Fix the twig so it can also serve as a place card holder.
These pockets are handy for kids who love nature, as it's easy to slip a special rock, twig, or even a tiny living creature into an overall pocket.
Leaves are alternate, bipinnately compound and present at the end of twig.
At Coombe Royal, in South Devon, it grows quite 20 feet high, and is a spectacle of wondrous beauty about the end of April or the beginning of May, when every twig carries a cluster of fiery flowers.
The leaves vary much in size even on the same twig, being 3 to 5 inches long, tapering to a point, 1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches wide, slightly hairy on both sides, and edged with coarse sharp teeth.
He begged a twig from a basket sent to Lady Suffolk, and when it rooted, a weeping willow was the result.
Currently trying to pursue his apprenticeship as a tattoo artist, Dizzle has hit a major speed bump, having been cut loose by his mentor Twig.
Originally an excellent airbrush artist, Twig moved into tats about six years ago.
Not. Frustrated with more than one of Dizzle's antics, Twig has decided Diz needs a reality check, and gives him the boot until he really understands what it means to have a career in body art.
They sell balsam wreaths as well as birch twig wreaths, even some interesting ones made out of feathers.
Hence Fechner describes himself as a twig fallen from Schelling's stem.
The fifth is an example where the bud to which the shoot should be cut back is badly placed; a shoot resulting from a bud left on the upper side is apt instead of growing outwards to grow erect, and lead to confusion in the form of the tree; to avoid this it is tied down in its proper place during the summer by a small twig.