the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
verb-intransitive. Of any channels or lines, to meet and unite or run into each other, as rivers; to coalesce; to interjoin.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To communicate or unite by anastomosis; intercommunicate, inosculate, or run into one another: said chiefly of vessels conveying fluid, as blood or lymph, as when arteries unite with one another or with veins.
To connect by anastomosis.
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v. cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis
v. come together or open into each other
Word Usage
"We now reach the confluence of the Nkonio or north-eastern, with the Mbokwe, or eastern branch, which anastomose to form the Gaboon; the latter, being apparently the larger of the two, preserves the title Mpolo."