brancheryn.
/ˈbrɑːnʃəri//ˈbranʃəri/ a. Branches collectively. literal and figurative.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > collectively
boughage1594
shroud1597
ramage1656
ramification1768
branchery1830
branchage1869
1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State (1839) 131.
1847 S. Coleridge in Biog. Lit. Introd. 125 All the branchery of mystic beliefs and superstitious practices.
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 85 That tree..From whose umbrageous branchery human fruit..In sacred ripeness dropped.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > inner layer or edocarp
branchery1672
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 150 The Branchery is nothing else but the Ramifications of the Lignous Body throughout all the parts of the Parenchyma.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Apple The branchery, or vessels are only ramifications of the woody part of the branch.
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