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anastomosing en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.
It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
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(not-comparable) Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore.
anastomosing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of anastomose
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: