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Noun
  • any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
    • the arm of the record player
    • an arm of the sea
    • a branch of the sewer
  • a stream or river connected to a larger one
  • a natural consequence of development
  • a part of a forked or branching shape
    • he broke off one of the branches
  • a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
  • a division of some larger or more complex organization
    • a branch of Congress
    • botany is a branch of biology
    • the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages
Verb
  • divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
    • The road forks
  • grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
    • these plants ramify early and get to be very large
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