dendrite
Meaning of dendrite
noun
- a short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
- a crystal or crystalline mass with a branching treelike structure.
early 18th century: from French, from Greek dendritēs ‘treelike’, from dendron ‘tree’.
Information about dendrite
- It is a name.
- The plural form of dendrite is: dendrites.
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Hyphenation of dendrite
den-drite
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- dendrite is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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