Arborescent

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  • adjective. Having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree; treelike.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In bacterial., specifically applied to the branched, tree-like colony formed by certain bacteria in stab-cultures.
  • Resembling a tree; tree-like in growth, size, or appearance; having the nature and habits of a tree; branching like a tree; dendritic.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to a tree's; branching.
  • adjective. Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (opposed to the rhizome theory).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. resembling a tree in form and branching structure
    • Word Usage
    "The new list excluded the so-called arborescent (tree-like) species such as aloes, tree ferns and cycads."
    Equivalent
    branchy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Lycopodium  broadleaf  cactus-like  closely-allied  cryptogamic  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    branching  dendritic  
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