Definition: any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
Usage: the arm of the record player; an arm of the sea; a branch of the sewer
Main entry: arm, branch, subdivision
Definition: a division of some larger or more complex organization
Usage: a branch of Congress; botany is a branch of biology; the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages
Main entry: branch
Definition: a stream or river connected to a larger one
Main entry: outgrowth, offset, offshoot, branch
Definition: a natural consequence of development
Main entry: branch
Definition: a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
Main entry: ramification, leg, branch
Definition: a part of a forked or branching shape
Usage: he broke off one of the branches
Main entry: ramify, branch, furcate, fork, separate
Definition: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
Usage: The road forks
Definition: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
Usage: these plants ramify early and get to be very large