Dendrite

[Sarah]

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figuresresembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually anoxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallizedmineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; anarborization.

[Sarah]

A branch of the nerve cell that receives nerve impulses from the axon of a neighboring nerve; a tree-like extension of the neuron cell body. It receives information, along with the cell body, from other neurons

[Lanell]

one of the short parts like threads at the edge of a nerve cell that carry messages to the cell

[Raeanne Dimick]

A short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.