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anastomose

verb

  1. to connect by anastomosis
  2. cause interconnection/flow between 2 branching networks, having branched systems that connect, allowing flow between them
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/

adj

  1. Joined or run together; interconnected.
  2. Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.

verb

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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