dendrites

Meaning of dendrites

plural noun
  1. a short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
  2. a crystal or crystalline mass with a branching treelike structure.

early 18th century: from French, from Greek dendritēs ‘treelike’, from dendron ‘tree’.

Information about dendrites

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of dendrites is: dendrite.
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Hyphenation of dendrites

den-drites

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • dendrites is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of dendrites

distender, redistend

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