twig : Idioms & Phrases

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blood-twig

  • noun European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers
    common European dogwood; pedwood; red dogwood; Cornus sanguinea.
WordNet

Lime rod, Lime twig

  • a twig smeared with birdlime; hence, that which catches; a snare. Chaucer.
Webster 1913

lime twig

Lime twig
Definitions
  1. . See under 4th Lime.
Webster 1913

lime-twigged

Lime"-twigged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.
Webster 1913

twig blight

  • noun a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants
WordNet

Twig borer

  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus).
Webster 1913

Twig girdler

  • . (Zoöl.) See Girdler, 3.
Webster 1913

Twig rush

  • (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus Cladium having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or stalks. See Saw grass, under Saw.
Webster 1913