dendryt
//ˈdɛn.drɘt//
Polishnoun
Definitions
- 1.dendrite, dendron (slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell)
- 2.dendrite (tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes)
- 3.tree (connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges)
Synonyms & related words
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Etymology
Internationalism; compare English dendrite, French dendrite, German Dendrit, ultimately from Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs).