anastomose

Etymology

verb

1. (transitive, of streams and rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join (two or more things) by anastomosis, to interconnect forming a network.
   Happisburgh's humans discarded their stone tools close to one of several anastomosing, slow-flowing low-energy rivers, all of which meandered across a floodplain into a large estuary. 2014 [2013], Rob Dinnis, Chris Stringer, Britain: One million years of human history, London: Natural History Museum, page 31
2. (intransitive, of rivers, blood vessels, etc.) To join by anastomosis.
   Within eukaryotic cells, distant branches of the tree of life entwine and melt into an inseparable new lineage; they fuse, or anastomose, as fungal hyphae do. 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 92

adj

1. (botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.
2. (of rivers, etc) Joined or run together, ramified, interconnected.