A settlement characterized by a concentrated center of political/economic control that exerts influence over a series of smaller less significant settlements over a a great distance. The further the lesser settlements are from the elite center the less allegiance they have towards their the capital settlement.
It is Dendritic
Dendritic
i'm not sure. I think it's a dendritic pattern
The expansion of dendritic connections.
Dendritic pattern
The st. Lawrence river is dendritic drainage.
The word is spelled dendritic, just as you spelled it. The word means relating to or resembling a dendrite.
Most Indo-Gangetic Rivers have dendritic (tree-like) drainage pattern.
I don't know about 'treillis' rivers, but the Loire river seems to me to be dendritic (in the sense of arborescent)
The dendritic pattern develops where the river channel follows the slope of the terrain. The stream with its tributaries resembles the braches of a tree , thus the name dendritic. It also flows underneath a rock that is the same hardness.
dendritic cell
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