arborescent
Adjective Satellite
- resembling a tree in form and branching structure
- "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"
Adj
- Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
- Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).
Examples
- Gilles Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike
Scrabble Score: 15
arborescent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordarborescent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
arborescent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary