dendra

English

Noun

dendra

1. (uncommon) plural of dendron
   • 1907, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing Papers of a Biological Character, page lxiii:

     Not only did he trace these fibrils from the dendritic processes to the axis cylinder process, but also from one dendron to other dendra.

   • 1977, Mathematical Centre Tracts, page 187:

     Also, if X is the topological sum of finitely many dendra, then λX is a Q-manifold; in fact it is a topological sum of finitely many Hilbert cubes.

   • 1982, Mineralogical Magazine, page 372:

     Individual planar dendra consist of a central rod from which branches and sub-branches have grown, each at about 60° to the parent branch (fig 1).