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" (19 found)
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Closest matches (4)
braincerebral cortex
Noun(2 words)
branching crystaldendritic crystal
Strong matches (6)
Related words (9)
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7 entriescellular extensioncrystal habitmineral morphologynerve fibernerve fibreneural structureneuron part
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7 entriesapical dendritebasal dendritecalcite dendriteiron oxide dendritemanganese oxide dendritepyramidal dendritespiny dendrite
Collocations
6 entriesapical dendritebasal dendritedendrite branchingdendritic arborizationdendritic spineneuronal dendrite
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesSample 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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