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Webster 1828 Edition

Dendrite

DENDRITE

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Noun.

[Gr. A tree.] A stone or mineral on or in which are the figures of shrubs or trees; an arborescent mineral.

Definition 2024

dendrite

dendrite

English

Noun

dendrite ‎(plural dendrites)

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

Translations

projection of a nerve cell

Bulgarian: дендри́т m ‎(dendrít)
Catalan: dendrita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 樹突 (zh), 树突 (zh) ‎(shùtū)
Dutch: dendriet (nl) m
Finnish: dendriitti (fi)
Greek: δενδρίτης m ‎(dendrítis)

Italian: dendrite (it) m
Japanese: 樹状突起 ‎(じゅじょうとっき, jujō tokki)
Portuguese: dendrito m
Russian: дендри́т (ru) m ‎(dendrít)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: дендрит m

Roman: dendrit (sh) m
Swedish: dendrit (sv)

crystal

Finnish: dendriitti (fi)
Japanese: 忍石 ‎(しのぶいし, shinobuishi)

Portuguese: dendrito m

hermit

Italian: dendrita m

Portuguese: dendrita m

Derived terms

dendritic

See also

Italian

Noun

dendrite m ‎(plural dendriti)

dendrite (all senses)

See also

dendrita