[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Communicating by anastomosis; inosculating.
1795. Haighton, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 198. The anastomosing nervous filaments.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LII. 170. A Flemish landscape, irrigated by anastomosing ditches.
1854. Carpenter, Comp. Phys., v. 223. The arteries … terminate in a complex system of anastomosing tubes.
