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BRANCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having branches
Synonyms:
branched; branching; ramate; ramose; ramous
Classified under:
Similar:
branchy (having many branches)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
Example:
horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots
Synonyms:
bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy
Classified under:
Similar:
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb branch
Context examples:
A sialoglycosphingolipid that is a branched nonasaccharide containing five sialyl residues, two galactose residues, one N-acetylgalactosamine residue and a glucose residue.
(Ganglioside GQ, NCI Thesaurus)
A type of large, coiled, tubular, sometimes branched, specialized sweat gland that empties into the upper portion of a hair follicle instead of directly onto the skin surface.
(Apocrine Sweat Gland, NCI Thesaurus)
The virus may have a branched morphology of varying length.
(Filoviridae, NCI Thesaurus)
A branched epithelial cell that supports epithelial structures.
(Epithelial Reticular Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase protein, is involved in the racemization of 2-methyl-branched fatty acid CoA esters.
(AMACR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A neuroglial cell of ectodermic origin having long, thin, infrequently branched cytoplasmic processes containing numerous fibrillar structures.
(Fibrous Astrocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
A dendrimer is a tree-like highly branched polymer molecule (Greek dendra = tree).
(Dendrimer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Most of the proteins synthesized in the ER are cotranslationally modified with N (asparagine)-linked glycans by addition of triglycosylated, branched oligosaccharides at asparagines residues.
(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A branched system of pipes, typically those that attach to an engine to carry away exhaust.
(Manifold Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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