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
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To beat with twigs.
verb
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To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
example
He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.
definition
To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
example
Do you twig me?
definition
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
verb
definition
To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
Examples of twigs in a Sentence
The dying back of the twigs of trees and shrubs is a frequent case.
The small twigs snapped and fell about me in showers.
These twigs are very slender for such a tall tree.
The nest looked like a thimble made of twigs and dried grass.
The shape is based on the branches or twigs of the crab apple tree.
Cross two sticks or twigs and weave colored yarn or thread around the cross to make a woven diamond shape.
From coast to coast, ghost stories litter the landscape like fallen twigs, and stories such as these add color to the local scenery.
Though the name sounds like a car, Asolo hiking boots offer water resistant full grain leather uppers which will protect your scrumptious ankle flesh from insects, small bloodthirsty animals, and stray twigs.
Centerpieces for Thanksgiving are often made out of Indian corn, decorative pumpkins, dried grasses, fall leaves and twigs.
Cut all the twigs to about the same length and hot glue them together in a square shape that's big enough for a votive to fit inside.
If you don't want to hang a wreath above the fireplace, try decorating the mantel with a collection of twigs gathered together with wire, leaves and acorns tucked in here and there, and a ribbon tied on to cover the wire.
On your walk you can pick up stones, leaves and twigs (or, if you're really lucky, shells, sand dollars or arrowheads) and incorporate them into your projects.
Why not make a mirror framed in twigs or a candle holder with rocks glued to the bottom?
Properly preserved leaves and flowers can be used in wreaths and swags, while twigs can make a great winter centerpiece, a "log cabin" box for holding small treasures or a trivet for your table.
The first bunch should be roughly two inches longer than your photo, while the second group of twigs should be approximately two inches wider than your photo.
Arrange the twigs to make a square that is the shape of your photo.
Use string to tie the corners of the twigs together in an "X" pattern.
Attach a small loop of string to the top of the twigs to provide a place to hang the photo.
Once you've located your stick (the protowand), strip any bark and twigs off of it with a paring knife.
Thus, by the end of his seventeenth year his apprenticeship of study was There is, however, one true nest-building parrot, the greybreasted parrakeet (Myopsittacus monachus), which constructs a huge nest of twigs.
These bodies, known technically as chioroplaIts, are found embedded in the protoplasm of the cells of the mesophyll of foliage leaves, of certain of the cells of some of the leaves of the flower, and of the cortex of the young twigs and petioles.
Even the oldest trees put out continually new leaves and twigs.
The dying back of twigs may be brought about by many causes.
The small twigs, tied in bundles, are boiled for some time in water with broken biscuit or roasted grain; the resulting decoction is then poured into a cask with molasses or maple sugar and a little yeast, and left to ferment.
Such cases are the habits of " shamming dead " and the combined posturing and colour peculiarities of certain caterpillars (Lepidopterous larvae) which cause them to resemble dead twigs or similar surrounding objects.
The foliage is of a paler green, the leaves are slender and longer, and the twigs are thinner than those of C. Libani.
Those of Phyrganea consist of bits of twigs or leaves cut to a suitable length and laid side by side in a long spirally-coiled band, forming the wall of a subcylindrical cavity.
The female, by means of her serrated ovipositor, lays her eggs in slits cut in the twigs of plants.
The most abundant of the terrigenous materials are the finest particles of clay and calcium carbonate as well as fragments derived from land vegetation, of which twigs, leaves, &c., may form a perceptible proportion as far as 200 m.
They are mainly nocturnal, and subsist chiefly on bark and twigs or the roots of water plants.
The male catkins are small, solitary, and are borne at the ends of the twigs; the cones are from 12 to 3 in.
The tea imported from Szechuen is for the most part of very inferior quality, estimated at 35% tea-leaves and 65% twigs and other material.
Slug-worms or saw-fly larvae require treatment by washing with soapsuds, tobacco and lime-water or hellebore solution, and Aphides by syringing from below and removing all surplus young twigs.
Monoblepharidaceae consists of a very small group of aquatic forms living on fallen twigs in ponds and ditches.
There is no longer a procession; but the palms (in Russia willow twigs) are blessed, and are held by the worshippers during the service.
Other species, especially the alligators, make a very large nest of leaves, twigs and humus, scraping together a mound about a yard high and two or more yards in diameter.
The great forest-tree has a shoot, which in the course perhaps of hundreds of years, has developed a wide-spreading system of trunk and branches, bearing on the ultimate twigs or branchlets innumerable leaves, while beneath the soil a widely-branching root-system covers an area of corresponding extent.
Mayflies and dragon-flies danced in the sunlight; lizards darted across the paths; and legions of spiders pervaded the grass, many very beautiful - frosted - silver backs, or curious, like the saltigrades, who took a few steps and then gave a leap. There were crickets in infinite numbers; and flies innumerable, from slim daddy-long-legs to ponderous, black, hairy fellows known to science as Dejeaniae; hymenopterous insects in profusion, including our old friend the bishop of Ambato (possibly Dielis), in company with another formidable stinger, with chrome antennae, called by the natives ` the Devil '; and occasional Phasmas (caballo de palo) crawling painfully about, like animated twigs."
Piles of rocks are made on the muddy bottoms of these salt-water lakes, and around these are arranged circles of stakes, to which are often attached bundles of twigs.
Birch trees are thrown into the water near a natural bed of oysters, and the trunks and twigs become covered with spat; the trees are then dragged out upon the shore by oxen, and the young fry are broken off and laid down in the shallows to increase in size.
Thus William of Malmesbury says that he was sent to Britain by St Philip, and, having received a small island in Somersetshire, there constructed "with twisted twigs" the first Christian church in Britain - afterwards to become the Abbey of Glastonbury.
The long linear leaves of some species of Podocarpus, in which the lamina is traversed by a single vein, recall the pinnae of Cycas; the branches of some Dacrydiums and other forms closely resemble those of lycopods; these superficial resemblances, both between different genera of conifers and between conifers and other plants, coupled with the usual occurrence of fossil coniferous twigs without cones attached to them, render the determination of extinct types a very unsatisfactory and frequently an impossible task.
The finer branches are green, and bear a close resemblance to the stems of Equisetum and to the slender twigs of Casuarina; the surface of the long internodes is marked by fine longitudinal ribs, and at the nodes are borne pairs of inconspicuous scale-leaves.
The Romans were careful to keep their arable lands dry by means of open trenches or covered drains filled with stones or twigs.
In Asterophyllites., the generic distinction of which from Annularia is not always clear, the narrow linear leaves are in crowded whorls, and the ultimate branches distichously arranged; in the Calamocladus of Grand' Eury - characteristic of the Upper Coal Measures - the whorls are more remote, and the twigs polystichous in arrangement.
These cones, varying from an inch to a foot in length, according to the species, were borne either on the ordinary twigs, or, as was conjectured, on the special branches (Ulodendron and Halonia) above referred to.
With these occur several Conifers, among others Voltzia heterophylla and some twigs referred to the genus Albertia, bearing large leaves like those of Agathis australis and some of the Araucarias, also a few representatives of the Cycadales.
Coniferous twigs are very common in Mesozoic strata, but in most cases we are compelled to refer them to provisional genera, as the evidence of vegetative shoots alone is not sufficient to enable us to determine their position within the Coniferae.
Other seams are full of the twigs and cones of Athrotaxis, a Conifer now confined to Tasmania.
In the New Year the bare twigs make a bright tracery above clumps of snowdrops and yellow winter aconites.