ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Anastomosing

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊ.zɪŋ/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Anastomosing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of anastomose.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of anastomose.

More Meanings

  1. (mycology) Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.
  2. (geology) Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore.

Example Sentences

It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intervenose, homoimerous, ventricose, amanitoid, fusoid-ventricose, mycorrhized.

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