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
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
The meadows in this neighbourhood abound with an arborescent willow, whose leaves are like those of an Alaternus, or a laurel.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
Brongniart, to be arborescent ferns; but the discovery of their internal structure, and of their leaves, has since proved that they have no real affinity to ferns.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Still farther east, by Accra, are numerous arborescent Euphorbias, and immediately west of the lower Volta forests of oil palms and grassy plains with fan palms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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