Definition of "anastomosing" []

• Present participle of anastomose. (verb)
• Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins. (adjective)
• Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore. (adjective)

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• "Its substrate is composed of anastomosing mudbanks and unconsolidated calcareous sediments over limestones and is one of the most active areas of modern carbonate sedimentation."
• "Ecoregion 63d is composed of beaches, dunes, low terraces, beach ridges, and barrier islands that are fringed by lagoons, bays, tidal salt marshes, mudflats, anastomosing tidal channels, or ocean."
• "Lopez (Cabo de Lopo Gonsalvez), and which forms by anastomosing with a southern river the Ogobe (Ogowai of M. du Chaillu), a complicated delta whose sea-front extends from north to south, at least eighty miles."