Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A branching, treelike shape or arrangement, as that of the dendrite of a nerve cell.
  • noun The formation of a treelike shape or arrangement.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A growth or an appearance resembling the figure of a tree or plant, as in certain minerals or fossils.
  • noun In pathology, the ramification of capillary vessels or veinlets rendered conspicuous by distention and injection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any branching, treelike shape or formation
  • noun The formation of such a shape or formation

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  • JM holds his arms in the air in his latest attempt at arborization.

    January 18, 2011