English words starting with dendr

Meanings of Dendrite:

noun

A short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.

Usage examples:

Axons send signals to other cells and dendrites receive them.

Meanings of Dendrites:

noun

A short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.

Usage examples:

Axons send signals to other cells and dendrites receive them.

Meanings of Dendritic:

adjective

Having a branched form resembling a tree.

Usage examples:

Moss agate has a pale background colour with numerous darker dendritic patterns

Meanings of Dendrochronology:

noun

The science or technique of dating events, environmental change, and archaeological artefacts by using the characteristic patterns of annual growth rings in timber and tree trunks.

Usage examples:

At the tower's core is a massively strong timber frame, which dendrochronology has recently dated t…

Meanings of Dendroid:

adjective

(of a plant, marine invertebrate, or structure) tree-shaped; branching.

Usage examples:

The intermediate-level benthos was dominated by sponges, corals, giant bivalves, giant brachiopods,…

noun

A graptolite (fossil marine invertebrate) of a type that formed much-branched colonies, found chiefly in the ordovician and silurian periods.

Usage examples:

In the early ordovician, many-branched planktonic forms developed from the attached dendroids.

Meanings of Dendrology:

noun

The scientific study of trees.

Usage examples:

The process of naming plants and classifying them into those groupings is called nomenclature; the …

Meanings of Dendron:

noun

Another term for dendrite (sense 1).

Meanings of Dendrons:

noun

Another term for dendrite (sense 1).

Meanings of Dendrophile:

noun

A person who loves trees

Usage examples:

A passionate dendrophile, he talks about the characteristics of different trees as if describing pe…