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branchnoun a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plantI loved climbing among the branches of that old tree a local unit of an organizationa bank with many neighborhood branches affiliate, cell, chapter, council, local arm, division, wingoffshoot, subchapterlodge, post a stream that flows into a larger body of waterthe Blue Nile, the Atbara, and the White Nile are the three primary branches of the Nile River affluent, bayou, confluent, feeder, influent, tributary backwaterbrook, brooklet, creek, rill, rivulet, run(chiefly Midland), streamletfountainhead, head, headstream, headwater, source distributary, effluent a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organizationthe two branches of the U.S. Congress branchverbto extend outwards from or as if from a central pointthreads branched from the center of the spider web fan (out), radiate, ray diffuse, dispel, disperse, dissipatefork, stemdiverge, divide, part, ramify, separate, split, uncouple, unlink, unyokescatter, splay, spreadarise, derive, emanate, flow, issue, proceed, spring concentrate, converge, focus, funnel, meet approach, close in (on), nearcenter (on), centralizeconnect, couple, join, link, unite in the 13th century |