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
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
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
Might not this shred of memory chance to be a crystal of the right salt in the solvent of his mind, and set going a swift arborescence to penetrate the whole?
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
What pines were those! what giants of arborescence!
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
