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twig

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twig
1. any small branch or shoot of a tree or other woody plant
2. something resembling this, esp a minute branch of a blood vessel

TWIG - Tree-Walking Instruction Generator.

A code generator language. ML-Twig is an SML/NJ variant.

["Twig Language Manual", S.W.K. Tijang, CS TR 120, Bell Labs, 1986].


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He broke a twig from a bush, dipped it into a pool of blood and wrote rapidly.
For when the dead-leaf butterfly is in danger, it clings to the side of a twig, and what it says to its foe is practically this: "I am not a butterfly, I am a dead leaf, and can be of no use to thee.
A twig cracked sharply under Pollyanna's foot, and the man turned his head.
 
 
 
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