treelike

American  

[tree-lahyk] / ˈtriˌlaɪk /

adjective

1. resembling a tree in shape or other properties.

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Other Word Forms

• non-treelike adjective
• treelikeness noun

Example Sentences

With treelike structures, a green knoll and overhead chimes incorporating colorful carved birds, the 3,500-square-foot space exposes young minds to art’s most fundamental ingredients: materials.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2023

The shores near the river’s mouth have long been sculpted by the incoming and outgoing tides, which have left branching treelike patterns imprinted in the sands.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

There are also oddities like the sculpted head of treelike Marvel superhero Groot, which won her father and fellow mosaic artist Steve Morgan, a prize at Yakima’s Central City Comic Con a few years ago.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Other researchers began offering other images of evolutionary history, other “trees,” some of them not very treelike, that took account of H.G.T. and represented those entanglements of evolutionary history.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2018

In this place, the woods went on farther, the trees becoming cruder and less treelike the farther you went.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman