Definition of branch

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Branch (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola..

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Pinweed :: Pinweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers..
Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera..
Hag :: Hag (n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken..
Tributary :: Tributary (a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi..
Innervate :: Innervate (v. t.) To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches..
Photochemistry :: Photochemistry (n.) The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography..
Armory :: Armory (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.
Lophobranchiate :: Lophobranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.
Venule :: Venule (n.) A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects..
Interlucate :: Interlucate (v. t.) To let in light upon, as by cutting away branches..
Coralloid :: Coralloid (a.) Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
Embranchment :: Embranchment (n.) The branching forth, as of trees..
Perennibranchiate :: Perennibranchiate (a.) Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.
Inferobranchiate :: Inferobranchiate (a.) Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata..
Stolon :: Stolon (n.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole.
Sea Slug :: Sea slug () A nudibranch mollusk.
Stratocracy :: Stratigraphy (n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.
Littorina :: Littorina (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle..
Racemose :: Racemose (a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme..
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