Little copses of television antennas. Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.
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Dendrite
//ˈdɛndɹaɪt//
Synonyms for "dendrite" (13 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Related words (6)
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8 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дендри́т noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- дендрит noun (crystal)
Catalan
1 entries- dendrita noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 樹突 /树突 noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Dutch
1 entries- dendriet noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Finnish
3 entries- dendriitti noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- dendriitti noun (crystal)
- tuojahaarake noun (projection of a nerve cell)
French
1 entries- dendrite noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Greek
1 entries- δενδρίτης noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Italian
2 entries- dendrita noun (hermit)
- dendrite noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Japanese
2 entries- 忍石 noun (crystal)
- 樹状突起 noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- dendrît noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- liq û pop noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Polish
3 entries- dendryt noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- dendryt noun (crystal)
- pustelnik żyjący na drzewie noun (hermit)
Portuguese
3 entries- dendrita noun (hermit)
- dendrito noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- dendrito noun (crystal)
Russian
1 entries- дендри́т noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dendrit noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- дендрит noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Spanish
1 entries- dendrita noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Swedish
1 entries- dendrit noun (projection of a nerve cell)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дендри́т noun (projection of a nerve cell)
- дендри́т noun (crystal)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
A typical brain neuron has perhaps a thousand little wires, called dendrites, which connect it with its fellows.
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