branch

Noun

• 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
    

• a stream or river connected to a larger one

• a natural consequence of development

• a part of a forked or branching shape
  • he broke off one of the branches
    

• a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

• 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

• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
  • The road forks
    

• grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
  • these plants ramify early and get to be very large
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  arm , limb , outgrowth , offshoot , offset , leg , ramification , subdivision , ramify , fork , furcate , separate