Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to trees; of the nature of a tree.

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Examples

  • With others who have given much attention to this remarkable reed, I believe that in its manifold uses the bamboo is the world's greatest dendral benefactor.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • With others who have given much attention to this remarkable reed, I believe that in its manifold uses the bamboo is the world's greatest dendral benefactor.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • The bracing air, the clean snow-paths, the sled and sleigh, the revelation of forms that all summer were grass-hidden; the sharp-outlined hills lying clear upon the sky; the exquisite tracery of trees, -- especially of all such trees as that dendral child of God, the elm, whose branches are carried out into an endless complexity of fine lines of spray, and which stands up in winter, showing in its whole anatomy, that all its summer shade was founded upon the most substantial reality.

    Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

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