单词 embranchment 释义 embranchment|mbrnmnt, --|[f. as prec. + -ment: cf. Fr. embranchement.]A branching off or out, as of an arm of a river, a spur of a mountain-range: concr. a branch, ramification. Also fig.1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 194 The lateral em...