anastomosing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of anastomose

   “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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Fused together in a vein-like network; used to describe mushroom gills that are interconnected with veins.

   “It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.”

2. (not-comparable)Networked into irregularly branching and reconnecting veins of ore.