| Branching 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Branch. 2. (a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. 3. (n.) The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. Thesaurus Entries V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, tree-shaped, treelike, treelikeness, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggy |