Branches collectively; the system or arrangement of branches on a tree or plant.
From French 'branchage' (branches, branching system), derived from branche (branch) + -age (collective suffix). The term entered English as a botanical descriptor in the 16th-17th centuries.
A tree's branchage is like its fingerprint—botanists can identify species and even individual trees by their unique branching patterns, and architects now copy these efficient structures for building design.
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