arborescent
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- arborescence noun
- arborescently adverb
- subarborescence noun
- subarborescent adjective
Etymology
Origin of arborescent
1665–75; < Latin arborēscent- (stem of arborēscēns ), present participle of arborēscere to grow into a tree. See arbor 3, -escent
Example Sentences
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From there, the GRR1 heads northwest into a dense and impossibly wet woodland wreathed in arborescent ferns and carpeted with beds of moss two feet deep.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2019
Searching for trees in these spindly, barely arborescent paintings feels valid and foolish at once.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2017
Pel�e that destroyed Saint Pierre, he alludes to Arnoux' garden, and speaks of a spray of arborescent fern that had been sent him.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.
Three species are to be found within our borders, two of which are arborescent, Y. arborescens, and Y. Mohavensis.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
We have this principle exemplified in the Carboniferous flora, by the magnitude of its arborescent club-mosses, and the vast variety of its gymnosperms.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
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