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arborescent, a.|ɑːbəˈrɛsənt|
[ad. L. arborēscent-em, pr. pple. of arborēsc-ĕre: see arboresce and -ent.]
1. Tree-like in growth; approaching the size of a tree, or having a woody stem.
1675Grew Anat. Trunks i. §32 Examples of Trees or Arborescent Plants. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xi. 244 An arborescent grass, very like a bamboo. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. ix. vii. 553 Coco-nut palms and arborescent mimosas.
2. Tree-like in general appearance, or in the arrangement of parts; branching like a tree.
1679Phil. Collect. XII. 6 A Clift all interwoven with Arborescent Marchasites. 1766Pennant Brit. Zool. VI. 67 (Jod.) Asterias arborescent with five rays. 1775Ellis in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 17 The arborescent figures of the Cornish native copper. 1881Mivart Cat 233 An arborescent network of veins.
b. in Arch. (See quot.)
1849Freeman Archit. 260 Not growing out of their support as in the arborescent Gothic. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxi. §27 All good ornamentation is thus arborescent, as it were, one class of it branching out of another and sustained by it.
c. fig. Manifoldly branching.
1867E. F. Burr Ecce Cœlum vi. 167 God whose unity is arborescent with endless varieties of beauty and power. |