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anastomose en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. Joined or run together; interconnected.
  2. (of rivers, qualifier:etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.

Forms

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more anastomose Degree=Cmp lexicographic
anastamose alternative lexicographic
most anastomose Degree=Sup lexicographic

anastomose en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (of streams and rivers, qualifier:blood vessels, transitive, usually) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
    • 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. 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31:
  2. (intransitive, of rivers, qualifier:blood vessels, usually) To join by anastomosis.
    • 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. 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92:

Forms

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anastomoses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
anastamose alternative lexicographic
anastomosed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
anastomosed Tense=Past lexicographic
anastomosing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

anastomosis

Synonyms

interconnect · interjoin