dendra

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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).

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