anastomose

present singular third person anastomoses · participle present anastomosing · participle past anastomosed · past anastomosed · alternative anastamose

1. transitiveusuallyblood vesselsTo 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.

   2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31

2. intransitiveusuallyblood vesselsTo 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.

   2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92

comparative more anastomose · superlative most anastomose · alternative anastamose

1. biologyJoined or run together; interconnected.
2. etcJoined or run together, ramified, interconnected.