Definition of "arborescent" []

• Having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree; treelike. (adjective)

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• "The new list excluded the so-called arborescent (tree-like) species such as aloes, tree ferns and cycads."
• "An arborescent generating method is used to create a new system from the existing system, that is, ‘growing’ the new building from the old as new branches grow on a tree."
• "In a very important sense, Twitter is decentralized at its core, it is rhizomatic rather than arborescent."