Not having or divided into branches:a long, unbranched chain of amino-acid residues called a polypeptide...
The colonies grow as branched or unbranched chains.
In plants with long unrooted unbranched stems, branching on a phytomer can be induced by the outgrowth of an adventitious root from one of the two root primordia present at its node.
The vestures in S. japonica vary from small and unbranched to largely branched and widely expanding.