[ˈdɛndrʌɪt], (Noun)

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

- a crystal or crystalline mass with a branching treelike structure


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Origin:
early 18th century: from French, from Greek dendritēs ‘treelike’, from dendron ‘tree’