Noun
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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"
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a stream or river connected to a larger one
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a natural consequence of development
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a part of a forked or branching shape
"he broke off one of the branches"
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a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
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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"
Verb
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divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
"The road forks"
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grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
"these plants ramify early and get to be very large"