Small thin branches that grow from larger branches of a tree or bush.
From Old English 'twig,' of Germanic origin, related to 'two'—possibly because twigs often fork into two branches. The plural 'twigs' is the standard form.
Twigs are so small and fragile that we use 'twig' as a slang verb meaning to understand something suddenly—as if a light, delicate idea just landed in your mind.
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