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Arborescent   Listen
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Arborescent  adj.  Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Arborescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... a gold leaf covering a surface of fifty-six square inches, and it is so ductile that the same quantity may be drawn into a wire 500 feet in length. Silver is found embedded in various rocks, where it occurs in veins, assuming arborescent or thread-like forms, and occasionally appearing in large masses. The largest mass found in Europe was brought from Kongsberg, in Norway, weighing upwards of 560 pounds, but another, won from the mines of Peru, ...
— The Mines and its Wonders • W.H.G. Kingston

... plants, more than thirty-one of them, according to Steenstrup and Heer, in a good state of preservation, and no less than fifteen specifically identical with Miocene plants of Europe. Thirteen of the number are arborescent; and amongst others is a tulip-tree (Liriodendron), with its fruit and characteristic leaves, a plane (Platanus), a walnut, and a vine, affording unmistakable evidence of a climate in the parallel of the arctic circle ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Arborescent" :   tree-shaped, treelike, branchy, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, arboreal, arboreous, dendroidal, dendroid, arborescent plant



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