twiglet

plural twiglets

1. A small twig.

   She pushed her glasses back up to the bridge of her nose and leaned back on her twiglet arms.

   2015, Nadia Espley, Lieblings

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   But what of the beginnings—to come back to the question—the first stirrings in the biological twiglet of evolution, when that splendid solid-state apparatus had not yet developed and a few smallish organic molecules were all that was?

   1999, Werner R. Loewenstein, The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life