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anastomosing

US/əˈnæs.təˌmoʊ.zɪŋ/

anastomosing is the present participle and gerund of anastomose.

Adjective

anastomosing (not comparable)

  1. Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.
    • It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329
  2. Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore.

Meaning of anastomose

Verb

anastomose (third-person singular simple present anastomoses, present participle anastomosing, simple past and past participle anastomosed)

  1. (transitive, usually, blood vessels) To 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. (intransitive, usually, blood vessels) To 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

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Questions about anastomosing

What does anastomosing mean?
Anastomosing means fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.
What is anastomosing the present participle and gerund of?
Anastomosing is the present participle and gerund of anastomose.
What part of speech is anastomosing?
Anastomosing is an adjective.
How do you pronounce anastomosing?
Anastomosing is pronounced /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊ.zɪŋ/ (US).

Words near anastomosing in the dictionary

  1. anastomized
  2. anastomose
  3. anastomosed
  4. anastomosely
  5. anastomoses
  6. anastomosing
  7. anastomosis
  8. anastomotic
  9. anastomotuberculate
  10. Anastos
  11. Anastoses

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