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Anastomose
//əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz// adj, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Joined or run together; interconnected.
- 2 Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.
Verb
- 1 To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network. transitive, usually
"Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary."
- 2 cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis wordnet
- 3 To join by anastomosis. intransitive, usually
"Within eukaryotic cells, distant branches of the tree of life entwine and melt into an inseparable new lineage; they fuse, or anastomose, as fungal hyphae do."
- 4 come together or open into each other wordnet
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