Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
dendroid .
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- adjective
dendroid ; resembling ashrub ortree
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- adjective resembling a tree in form and branching structure
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Examples
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In a few days moss-like forms were seen on the surface of the precipitate, presumably approximating to what we know as dendroidal gold -- that is, having the appearance of moss, fern, or twigs.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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It is always more or less mammillary, but at times, owing to causes which I have not yet quite satisfied myself upon, is decidedly dendroidal, as may be seen in one of the specimens which I have submitted to members.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Locality near Adelaide, now showing gold freely in mammillary and dendroidal form.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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It was almost noiseless -- the great hoofs of the oxen fell all muffled on the deep snow still whitely a-glitter with the moon, hanging dense and opaque in the western sky, and flecked with the dendroidal images of the overshadowing trees.
Who Crosses Storm Mountain? 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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