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branchesnounpl. of branch 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 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 affluents, bayous, confluents, feeders, influents, tributaries backwatersbrooklets, brooks, creeks, rills, rivulets, runs(chiefly Midland), streamletsfountainheads, heads, headstreams, headwaters, sources distributaries, effluents a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organizationthe two branches of the U.S. Congress branchesverbpresent tense third-person singular of branchto extend outwards from or as if from a central pointthreads branched from the center of the spider web fans (out), radiates, rays diffuses, dispels, disperses, dissipatesforks, stemsdiverges, divides, parts, ramifies, separates, splits, uncouples, unlinks, unyokesscatters, splays, spreadsarises, derives, emanates, flows, issues, proceeds, springs concentrates, converges, focuses(or focusses), funnels, meets approaches, closes in (on), nearscenters (on), centralizesconnects, couples, joins, links, unites |