Textual thesaurus for "branch"

(noun) arm, limb

any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

the arm of the record player; an arm of the sea; a branch of the sewer

(noun) arm, subdivision

a division of some larger or more complex organization

a branch of Congress; botany is a branch of biology; the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages

(noun) outgrowth, offset, offshoot

a natural consequence of development

(noun) ramification, leg

a part of a forked or branching shape

he broke off one of the branches

(verb) ramify, furcate, fork, separate

divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

The road forks

(verb) ramify

grow and send out branches or branch-like structures

these plants ramify early and get to be very large