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arborescent
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adj. resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal , arboreous , arboresque , arboriform , dendriform , dendroid , dendroidal , treelike , tree-shaped ]
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Arborescent is a term used by the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari to characterize thinking marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism . The term, first used in A Thousand Plateaus (1980) where it was opposed to the rhizome ...
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Arborescent \Ar`bo*res"cent\, a. [L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree.] Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. ``Arborescent hollyhocks.'' ...
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a. 1 Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to a tree's; branching. 2 (context philosophy English) Marked by insistence on totalize principles, binarism and dualism (opposed to the rhizome theory).
Usage examples of arborescent.
Some of the flashes branched out in a thousand different directions, making coralliform zigzags, and threw out wonderful jets of arborescent light.
Then there were citrons and wild pomegranates and a score of other arborescent plants, all testifying to the fertility of this plateau of Central Africa.
Other arborescent species, unknown to the young naturalist, bent over the stream, which could be heard murmuring beneath the bowers of verdure.
United States surveyors weary of attempting to take observations among quagmires, moccasins, and arborescent weeds from fifteen to twenty feet high.
Now the iron beast, consuming its ration of coal, is really browsing the ancient foliage of arborescent ferns in which solar energy has accumulated.
On rhizomatic and arborescent structures, see Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans.
Cottonwoods, with an occasional willow, form the arborescent growth of the valley of the Verde proper, although on some of the principal tributaries and at a little distance from the river groves of other kinds of trees are found.
The arborescent growth consists of sparsely distributed cottonwoods and willows, closely confined to the river bottoms.
Bunsen cells, it will be precipitated in an arborescent brittle form, ill adapted for weighing.
If our lungs find in the atmosphere the aliment they need, it is thanks to the inconceivably incoherent forests of arborescent fern.
She knew the arborescent grasses that yielded the longest and toughest fibers and these she sought and carried to her tree with the spear shaft that was to be.
Behind us rose a dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent ferns intermingled with the commoner types of a primeval tropical forest.
With these they cut two pieces of bamboo-like arborescent grass to form the hafts of two spears.
Among the latter was a huge arborescent grass nearly a foot in diameter, with hard, smooth outer wood and a pithy core.
There was no word for the abstract notion of treeness which was common to all arborescent plants.