twig

     

A twig is a small terminal branch section that may bear leaves, bus and sometimes the flowers and fruit of plants. Only dicotyledonous flowering woody plants and most gymnosperms have true twigs; monocotyledons and tree ferns do not.

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  • A small piece of a tree; as a verb it means "to understand"
  • Twain wrote that a James Fenimore Cooper character who needs absolute silence "is sure to step on a dry" this

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