dendritic: den-drite \'den-,dr?^-t\ n (1727) 1: a branching treelike figure produced on or in a mineral by a foreign mineral; also: the mineral so marked 2: a crystallized arborescent form 3: any of the usu. branching protoplasmic processes that conduct impulses toward the body of a nerve cell -- den-drit-ic \den-'drit-ik\ adj