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branchial cleft |
branchiate |
branchiferous |
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branching
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branching
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun branching has 1 sense
- branching(n = noun.act) fork, forking, ramification - the act of branching out or dividing into branches; Array is a kind of division
has particulars: bifurcation, trifurcation, divarication, fibrillation
Adjective branching has 2 senses
- branching(s = adj.all) branched, ramate, ramose, ramous - having branches; Array
- branching(s = adj.all) Array - resembling the branches of a tree; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
branching, a.
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. [1913 Webster]
"Shaded with branching palm."
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branching, n.
The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. [1913 Webster]
"The sciences, with their numerous branchings."
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THESAURUS
branching
V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, tree-shaped, treelike, treelikeness, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggyROGET THESAURUS
branching
bisection
N bisection, bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety, bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi.Symmetry
N symmetry, shapeliness, finish, beauty, proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism, bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry, centrality, arborescence, branching, ramification, arbor vitae, symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished, beautiful, classic, chaste, severe, regular, uniform, balanced, equal, parallel, coextensive, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, branching, ramous, ramose, filiciform, filicoid, subarborescent, papilionaceous, fuji-shaped, fujigata, symmetry, shapeliness, finish, beauty, proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism, bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry, centrality, arborescence, branching, ramification, arbor vitae, symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished, beautiful, classic, chaste, severe, regular, uniform, balanced, equal, parallel, coextensive, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, branching, ramous, ramose, filiciform, filicoid, subarborescent, papilionaceous, fuji-shaped, fujigata.
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