Branching

(noun.) the act of branching out or dividing into branches.

(adj.) resembling the branches of a tree .

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• A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The branching and diverging dotted lines of unequal lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The young tadpole has branching external gills that wave in the water; then a gill cover grows back over them and forms a gill chamber. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mixed minerals will often intercrystallize in blobs or branching shapes that are very suggestive of simple plant or animal forms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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