twissel

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Double; twofold.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:twofold

Noun

 * 1)  A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
 * 2) * 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
 * As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;
 * 1)  That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.