arborescent
adjective
treelike in size and form.
arborescence
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a word derived from
arborescent.
Example Sentences
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The researchers' findings offer important insights into the evolution of plants and arborescence, meaning plants that grow to a tree height, or at least 15 feet at maturity.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024
It is not a blotting out—it is a polishing, it is an arborescence, it is an efflorescence, it is an irradiation.
From New Tabernacle Sermons by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Thus passed the leafy time when arborescence seems to be the one thing aimed at out of doors.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
An arid steppe, or table-land, by the Mexicans termed mesa; for the most part treeless, or only with such arborescence as characterises the American desert.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
