anastomosing

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈnæs.təˌmoʊ.zɪŋ/

Verb

anastomosing

1. present participle and gerund of anastomose
   • 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.

Adjective

anastomosing (not comparable)

1. (mycology) Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.
2. (geology) Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore.