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1790 F. Greville Reflection Postscr. 204 No extraneous matter for you to branch out, re-branch, and re-re-branch with.

1857 Wisconsin Messenger 28 Jan. 1/5 The lateral buds are not usually brought to perfection; or, if they do grow, they are..without a disposition to rebranch, for..when lateral branches are strong, they, in turn, give off others.

1888 J. Le Conte Evol. i. i. 14 A growing tree branches and again branches in all directions... Even so the tree of life, by the law of differentiation, branches and rebranches continually.

1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans v. 161 Evolutionary branches may..unite again after they have diverged and then either rebranch or remain united.

1968 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 75 696/2 These anterior and posterior intrahilar vessels then rebranch within the renal sinus and give rise to a variable number of interlobar arteries.

1992 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 79 162/2 Several main branches that quickly rebranch to produce numerous smaller secondary and tertiary branchlets.

1836 Hort. Reg. 5 130 The common carpenters..will re-branch a polled tree in a very few minutes, receiving payment only for the grafts which take.

1848 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. & Misc. 10 63 They [sc. the lungs] consist of a very thin and light membrane, permeated by two sets of tubes, one set formed by the branching and re-branching, almost to infinity, of the trachea.

1919 J. N. Martin Bot. for Agric. Students ix. 167 Branching reaches its maximum among the trees, where often there is branching and rebranching until the youngest branches are so numerous and small..that the tree may be somewhat brush-like in appearance.

2002 Jrnl. Paleontol. 76 30/1 Repetition of the rebranching differs slightly within a specimen.