BRANCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does branched mean? 

• BRANCHED (adjective)
  The adjective BRANCHED has 2 senses:

1. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

2. having branches

  Familiarity information: BRANCHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

Synonyms:

bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy

Context example:

horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots

Similar:

divided (separated into parts or pieces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having branches

Synonyms:

branched; branching; ramate; ramose; ramous

Similar:

branchy (having many branches)

 Context examples 

Mucin O-glycans can be branched, and many sugars or groups of sugars are antigenic.

(O-Glycan Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

MCP is a low molecular weight version of pectin composed of short, slightly-branched carbohydrate chains and is modified for enhanced absorbability.

(Modified Citrus Pectin Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

Stamens are many, arranged in bundles of threes, and the flowers are profuse, arranged in branched cymes which bloom from June until September.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)

These polymers can be linear or branched and consist of glucose, arabinose, mannose, xylose and galacturonic acid.

(Hemicellulose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A 28-mer RNA aptamer covalently linked to two branched 20-kD polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains, with anti-angiogenic activity.

(Pegaptanib, NCI Thesaurus)

The sodium salt form of pegaptanib, a 28-mer RNA aptamer covalently linked to two branched 20-kD polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains, with anti-angiogenic activity.

(Pegaptanib Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

After passing Cahors, the party branched away from the main road, and leaving the river to the north of them, followed a smaller track which wound over a vast and desolate plain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Conjugation of the cytokine with a branched polyethylene glycol molecule significantly increases this agent's therapeutic half-life compared to filgrastim.

(Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar LA-EP2006, NCI Thesaurus)

Conjugation of the cytokine with a branched polyethylene glycol molecule (pegylation) significantly increases its therapeutic half-life.

(Pegfilgrastim, NCI Thesaurus)

The hills which surrounded the cottage terminated the valley in that direction; under another name, and in another course, it branched out again between two of the steepest of them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)