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arborescent

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ar·bo·res·cent  (ärb-rsnt)
adj.
Having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree; treelike.
[Latin arborscns, arborscent-, present participle of arborscere, to grow to be a tree, from arbor, tree.]
arbo·rescence n.
arborescent [ˌɑːbəˈrɛsənt]
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) having the shape or characteristics of a tree
arborescence  n
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Adj.1.arborescent - resembling a tree in form and branching structurearborescent - resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges"
arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike, arboreal, arboreous
branchy - having many branches; "a branchy tree trunk"
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Stately trees of many kinds, with smooth and highly coloured barks, are loaded by parasitical monocotyledonous plants; large and elegant ferns are numerous, and arborescent grasses entwine the trees into one entangled mass to the height of thirty or forty feet above the ground.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
The sun, darting his last rays beneath the masses of heaped-up cloud, adorned with a crest of gold the slightest inequalities of the ground below; gigantic trees, arborescent bushes, mosses on the even surface--all had their share of this luminous effulgence.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
Behind us rose a dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent ferns intermingled with the commoner types of a primeval tropical forest.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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