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arborescent

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11 lettersPronunciation /ɑːbəˈɹɛsənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abceenorrstStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. resembling a tree in form and branching structure

Word origin

From Latin arborēscēns, present active participle of arborēscō (“become a tree”). First attested around 1675. The philosophical sense refers to the way genealogy trees are drawn.

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  • Hydatica. Stem arborescent, jointed, branched; leaves long, linear.
  • Robinia, with its center of distribution in the southern Alleghany region, is represented by two arborescent and one frutescent species in the Atlantic and by one arborescent species in the Pacific region.
  • Gilles Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.

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