Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.
Synonym to dendritic: Aggregate composed of skeletal or tree-like formations. May be a single entity, or a formation that forms from mineral-rich solutions that deposit the mineral in rock and form a tree or plant structure embedded in rock. There sometimes is a distinction noted between the two aggregates; in some guides the former aggregate (single entity) is known as skeletal, and the latter as dendritic (embedded in rock). Other guides, such as this one, don't distinguish the two, and term them both as dendritic
(adj.) Similar to the size and habit of a tree.
having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree.
resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges"
many branches, tree like.
resembling a tree in height.
Tree-like; defined arbitrarily as pertaining to a woody plant at least 20 ft. high as maturity with a single stem and more or less definite crown.
having the size and form of a tree
resembling a tree (applied to non-woody plants attaining tree height and to shrubs tending to become tree-like in size). cf. dendroid.
of tree-like growth-habit, a tree. A woody plant.
Tree-like in appearance and size.
Tree like in form, usually with a distinct trunk at the base of the plant.
Arborescent is a term coined by the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari to characterize thinking marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism. The terms, first used in A Thousand Plateaus (1980) where it was opposed to the rhizome, comes from the way genealogy trees are drawn: unidirectional progress, with no possible retroactivity and continuous binary cuts (thus enforcing a dualist metaphysical conception, criticized by Deleuze). Rhizomes, on the contrary, mark an horizontal and non-hierarchical conception, where anything may be linked to anything else, with no respect whatsoever for specific species: rhizomes are heterogeneous links between things that have nothing to do between themselves (for example, Deleuze and Guattari linked together desire and machines to create the - most surprising - concept of desiring machines).