branch

Noun
  1. A division of some larger or more complex organization (synset 108418205)
    "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
  2. A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant (synset 113184148)
  3. A part of a forked or branching shape (synset 113936864)
    "he broke off one of the branches"
  4. A natural consequence of development (synset 111435835)
  5. A stream or river connected to a larger one (synset 109251231)
  6. Any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm (synset 102740838)
    "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"
Verb
  1. Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures (synset 200330054)
    "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
  2. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork (synset 200329612)
    "The road forks"

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