Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree; treelike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bacterial., specifically applied to the branched, tree-like colony formed by certain bacteria in stab-cultures.
- Resembling a tree; tree-like in growth, size, or appearance; having the nature and habits of a tree; branching like a tree; dendritic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.
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- adjective Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to a tree's; branching.
- adjective philosophy Marked by
insistence ontotalizing principles ,binarism anddualism (opposed to therhizome theory).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a tree in form and branching structure
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new list excluded the so-called arborescent (tree-like) species such as aloes, tree ferns and cycads.
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An arborescent generating method is used to create a new system from the existing system, that is, ‘growing’ the new building from the old as new branches grow on a tree.
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In a very important sense, Twitter is decentralized at its core, it is rhizomatic rather than arborescent.
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The only common tree species is the characteristic joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), an arborescent (treelike) yucca that forms extensive woodlands above 3000 feet (900 m) elevation.
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On some parts of the plains the arborescent cacti (cholla) are also common.
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The region contains forests of Polylepis, the only arborescent genus that occurs naturally at high elevations.
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Between 1150 and 2500, the trees are leafy with a canopy between 25 and 35 m tall and the undergrowth has arborescent ferns and palms, many plants with prop roots and abundant vascular epiphytes and woody lianas.
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Above 900 m. in altitude, there are smaller trees and palms such as Pithecellobium longifolium, Euterpe precatoria, Geomoma oxicarpa and the arborescent fern Trichipteris procera; many vascular epiphytes, Vriesia elata, Guzmania lingulata, large-leaved understory plants Calathea insignis, Diffenbachia longisphata; mosses and hepatics, Octoblepharum albidum, Leucomium compressum.
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It has evergreen and deciduous trees with two stories of trees 12-15 and 5-10 m high, some thorny shrubs, columnar or arborescent cactaceae, other succulents, herbaceae, epiphytes and dry lianas.
Cuban dry forests 2008
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There are however abundant columnar and arborescent cacti including Opuntia excelsa, Pachycereus spp.,
Jalisco dry forests 2008
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