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発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊz/

動詞

anastomose (三人称単数 現在形 anastomoses, 現在分詞 anastomosing, 過去形および過去分詞形 anastomosed)

1. (transitive, of streams かつ rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join (two または more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
   • 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis; Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, →ISBN, page 31:

     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.

2. (intransitive, of rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join by anastomosis.
   • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92:

     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.

同意語

• interconnect
• interjoin

関連する語

• anastomosis

Further reading

• Anastomosis on Wikipedia.

形容詞

anastomose (comparative more anastomose, superlative most anastomose)

1. (botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.
2. (of rivers, etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.

アナグラム

• Sao Tomeans, São Toméans