Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dendrite"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dendrite \Den"drite\, n. [Gr. dendri`ths, fem. dendri^tis, of a
tree, fr. de`ndron a tree: cf. F. dendrite.] (Min.)
A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures
resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral,
usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a
crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold
or silver; an arborization.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dendrite
n : short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron
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