Where does “樹状突起” come from?

樹状突起 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 突起 — a part that juts out of a surface, such as a protuberance, a projection, a prominence, a bump, a process, a promontory, an apophysis, an appendix, etc.

樹状突起 (Japanese): a dendrite

Definitions

  1. a dendrite

Ancestry of “樹状突起”, step by step

樹状突起 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 突起

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese突起a part that juts out of a surface, such as a protuberance, a projection, a prominence, a bump, a process, a promontory, an apophysis, an appendix, etc

via Japanese 樹状

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese樹状
Every word from Japanese 突起