branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
branches and leaves; foliage; unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue
ramification; branching off
dead branch (or twig, etc.); withered branch
branch road; byroad; side street; digression
dressed carcass; meat on the bone
enshrined deity of a subordinate shrine
tofu-like dish made with edamame
to work without sleep or rest
candelabra; candelabrum; girandole
cuttings; lop; spray; set; slip
bud sport; bud mutation; bud variation
fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch, a broken mirror can not be made to shine; what's done is done; there's no use crying over spilled milk
pronghorn (Antilocapra americana); prong buck; pronghorn antelope
pruning (e.g. decision tree)
geometer moth; geometrid (of the Ennominae subfamily)
to trim a tree; to prune a tree's branches
peppered moth (Biston betularia)
geometer moth caterpillar; geometrid caterpillar (of subfamily Ennominae)
Kyushu maple (Acer capillipes); red snakebark maple