arborescent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of arborescent
1665–75; < Latin arborēscent- (stem of arborēscēns ), present participle of arborēscere to grow into a tree. See arbor 3, -escent
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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
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
Tall, almost arborescent shrubs; with very divergent and rigid branches.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
The plants are rough-haired annual or perennial herbs, more rarely shrubby or arborescent, as in Cordia and Ehretia, which are tropical or sub-tropical.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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