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
But, on the counter-supposition that all these 128 peculiar species were separately created to occupy this particular island, it is surely unaccountable that they should thus present such an arborescence of natural affinities amongst themselves.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes
So that you may look upon the grass and forests of the earth as a kind of green hoar-frost, frozen upon it from our breath, as, on the window-panes, the white arborescence of ice.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
Heusch certainly painted the same effects of evening in wide expanses of country varied by rock formations and lofty thin-leaved arborescence as Both.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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
