'Branches' in the Bible

It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches."

and most of the crowd kept spreading their garments along the road, while others cut branches from the trees and carpeted the road with them,

"Now learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branches have now become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you all know that summer is near.