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11Twig — Die Klippenland Chroniken (englischer Originaltitel: The Edge Chronicles) ist eine Fantasy Jugendromanreihe des britischen Autors Paul Stewart. Sie wurde von Chris Riddell illustriert und besteht gegenwärtig aus zehn Bänden. Der erste Band der… …
12Twig — A twig is a small terminal branch section that may bear leaves, buds 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.Twigs are… …
13twig — twig1 twigless, adj. twiglike, adj. /twig/, n. 1. a slender shoot of a tree or other plant. 2. a small offshoot from a branch or stem. 3. a small, dry, woody piece fallen from a branch: a fire of twigs. 4. Anat. one of the minute branches of a… …
14twig — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dry ▪ bare ▪ dead ▪ broken ▪ She ran, treading on broken twigs and stumbling over roots. ▪ …
15twig — twig1 [ twıg ] noun count a very small thin branch from a tree or bush twig twig 2 [ twıg ] verb intransitive or transitive BRITISH INFORMAL to realize something …
16twig — I UK [twɪɡ] / US noun [countable] Word forms twig : singular twig plural twigs a very small thin branch from a tree or bush II UK [twɪɡ] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms twig : present tense I/you/we/they twig he/she/it twigs… …
17twig — I [[t]twɪg[/t]] n. pln a small, thin offshoot of a wooden branch or stem • Etymology: bef. 950; ME; OE twig, twigge; akin to MLG twīch, OHG zwīg (akin to twi ) twig′gy, adj. gi•er, gi•est. II twig [[t]twɪg[/t]] v. twigged, twig•ging 1) brit. to… …
18twig — I. /twɪg / (say twig) noun 1. a slender shoot of a tree or other plant. 2. a small offshoot from a branch or stem. 3. a small dry, woody piece fallen from a branch: a fire of twigs. 4. Anatomy one of the minute branches of a blood vessel or nerve …
19twig — One of the finer terminal branches of an artery; a small branch or small ramus. [A.S.] * * * twig twig n a minute branch of a nerve or artery <twigs of sensory nerves in the skin (Lynda Charters)> * * * (twig) in anatomy, a final… …
20twig — English has two separate words twig. The older, ‘small branch’ [OE], which has relatives in German zweig and Dutch tijg, appears to have been formed from the Germanic base *twi ‘two’, and so etymologically it presumably denotes a ‘forked branch’ …
