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Tall and branching
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treelike
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal , arboreous , arborescent , arboresque , arboriform , dendriform , dendroid , dendroidal , tree-shaped ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having some characteristics of a tree; resembling or similar to a tree.
Usage examples of treelike.
In front of the treelike Kanten, the filament in which they rode spiraled down and away into red dissipation.
Gert picked Cynthia up, held her over her head for a moment with her treelike legs spread, and then began to spin her like an airplane propeller.
Smiling - a rare expression that turned her face into something rather gruesome - Gert picked Cynthia up, held her over her head for a moment with her treelike legs spread, and then began to spin her like an airplane propeller.
Oily black fungus grew in gnarled, vaguely treelike masses, and thick rivulets of vile dark syrup oozed from puckered pustules on the trunks.
Treelike Sirens which addicted people and rated a hearing in the Ethics Committee were something new.
Hence, what we should find is a treelike branching structure following the lines of descent from a comparatively few ancient ancestors of the major groups, radiating outward from a well-represented trunk and limb formation laid down through the bulk of geological time as new orders and classes appear, to a profusion of twigs showing the diversity reached in the most recent times.