Anastomose

Quick meaning: Anastomose is a verb meaning (transitive, of streams and rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.

Meaning

(transitive, of streams and rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, of rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join by anastomosis.
2. (botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.
3. (of rivers, etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• anastomoses
• anastomosing
• anastomosed
• anastamose

Synonyms for anastomose

Depending on context, synonyms include interconnect, interjoin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anastamose, network, interjoin, associate, link up, link.

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