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Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English dendrite, French dendrite, German Dendrit, ultimately from Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
dendryt m inan (related adjective dendrytyczny or dendrytowy)
- (neuroanatomy) dendrite, dendron (slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell)
- (crystallography, metallurgy) dendrite (tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes)
- (graph theory) tree (connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges)
- Synonym: drzewo
Declension
Further reading
- dendryt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- dendryt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- dendryt in PWN's encyclopedia