Synonyms:
branch, subdivision, arm
Meaning: a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
Synonyms:
branch
Meaning: a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
Synonyms:
branch, leg, ramification
Meaning: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"
Usage examples
At this branch Zeb Stump stood gazing.
J. Pinkney Bloom walked down Cold Branch's main street.
Cold Branch lay on the edge of the grape and corn lands.
The London branch of the bank was really only a nursery.
The musical branch figures much in Irish romantic literature.
Never before or since was such quick action had in Cold Branch.
Considered from this point of view man is the branch; nature is the root.
"You know I was just fooling. I'll put you off at Cold Branch, if you say so."
Our branch has demanded an All-Russian Convention, and they refuse to call it...."
Fastened to the creeping branch, the unsightly bundle lies on the sand heaped up by the rains.