branchwork

plural branchworks

1. archaiccountableuncountableCollectively, the branches of a tree.

   and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root, through the jetty sprigs of which the fair skin shew'd as in a fine evening you may have remark'd the clear light ether throught the branchwork of distant trees over-topping the summit of a hill.

   Fanny Hill

   1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountableAny design or pattern resembling branches.

   Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.

   1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology