Usually means: Branching extensions of a neuron.
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  1. dendrite: Merriam-Webster
  2. dendrite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dendrite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dendrite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dendrite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dendrite, dendrite: Wordnik
  7. Dendrite, Dendrite: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. dendrite: Wiktionary
  9. dendrite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dendrite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dendrite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dendrite: Dictionary.com
  13. dendrite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dendrite (adhesive), Dendrite (crystal), Dendrite (disambiguation), Dendrite (mathematics), Dendrite (metal), Dendrite (non-neuronal), Dendrite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dendrite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dendrite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dendrite: Rhymezone
  18. Dendrite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dendrite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dendrite: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dendrite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dendrite: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. -dendrite: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dendrite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. dendrite: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dendrite: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Dendrite: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. dendrite: Medical dictionary
  9. Dendrite: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Dendrite: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Dendrite: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dendrite: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dendrite)

noun:  (cytology) A slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendron.
noun:  (cytology) Slender cell process emanating from the cell bodies of dendritic cells and follicular dendritic cells of the immune system.
noun:  (crystallography, metallurgy) Tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes
noun:  A hermit who lived in a tree

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