Most lung cancers occur in the branchlike system of the bronchial tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lasers To The Rescue: Killing Cancer With Light] Reference

He held up the long branchlike map Venera had taken from the tourist station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

The forms darted in and around the peculiar branchlike growths formed by the hexalates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cachalot]

He clasped four of his branchlike arms behind his squat, wide body and gestured with the remaining two.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Alien Hands]

  Two victims of the night laid still in the trail with their discarded long, branchlike objects  tossed to their side.    From Wordnik.com.  [dinner time] Reference

His right hand clutched the end of a speaking tube and he alternated between sighting along the branchlike map and peering through the periscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

A rare carnivorous plant, the black willow masked itself as log or tree and preyed on hapless creatures it lulled to sleep beneath its spreading, branchlike ten'tacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Queen]

The lichen's fungi send branchlike pieces into rocks or pieces of wood from which they absorb moisture and minerals.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In earlier work, Baram helped discover that excessive amounts of CRH in the brain's primary learning and memory center led to the disintegration of dendritic spines, branchlike structures on neurons.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Rising branchlike from the forest floor, it consists of a 450-foot walkway that climbs five stories into a canopy, eventually encircling a 250-year-old oak and culminating in a realistic, room-sized bird's nest built from harvested branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clog] Reference

The stones formed of carbonates or phosphates are usually smooth on the surface, though they may be molded into the shape of the cavity in which they have been formed; thus those in the pelvis of the kidney may have two or three short branchlike prolongations, while those in the bladder are round, oval, or slightly flattened upon each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference