arborescence
- 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
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 Ruskin, John
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 Webster, Noah
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 Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
What pines were those! what giants of arborescence!
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely
