ar·bo·rize

(är′bə-rīz′)

intr.v. ar·bo·rized, ar·bo·riz·ing, ar·bo·riz·es

To have or produce branching formations, as the bronchial tubes of the lungs.

[From Latin arbor, tree.]

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Air temperature in unshaded arabic coffee systems and arborized with rubber tree and dwarf coconut palm at Mococa region, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Effect of pigeon pea intercropping or shading with leucaena plants on the occurrence of the coffee leaf miner and on its predation by wasps in organic coffee plantings/Efeito da consorciacao com feijao-guandu ou sombreamento com plantas de leucena na Ocorrencia do Bicho-mineiro e sua predacao por vespas em lavouras de cafe organico

At P7, the MLCs were further extended and arborized (Figure 1, D3).

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The diagnosis is based on pure high-attenuating material in a generally symmetric and bilateral vascular distribution, arborized, if extensive, and supported by the presence of droplets in the right side of the heart or in other vascular beds.

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After implantation, angiogenic-vasculogenic processes promote formation of the highly arborized labyrinth vascular bed [72].

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