Definition of Arboriform

1. Adjective. Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. "Dendriform sponges"


Definition of Arboriform

1. a. Treelike in shape.

Definition of Arboriform

1. Adjective. Resembling a ''tree'' in shape or appearance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arboriform

arborets
arboretum
arboretums
arborical
arboricidal
arboricide
arboricides
arboricities
arboricity
arboricole
arboricolous
arboricultural
arboriculture
arboricultures
arboriculturist
arboriform (current term)
arborio
arborio rice
arborise
arborised
arborises
arborising
arborist
arborists
arborization
arborization block
arborizations
arborize
arborized
arborizes

Literary usage of Arboriform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"A pood deal of serous fluid could be squeezed from it. Kidneys large, of about twice their average weight, like white marble, with arboriform vascularity ..."

2. Clinical Studies in Vice and in Insanity by George Robert Wilson (1899)
"These, again, are arboriform—a multitude of clustering twigs. But now our tree is one whose twigs conduct motion into branches, these branches conduct it to ..."

3. Buffalo Medical Journal (1848)
"... six inches in length, and several lines in breadth; in another case the bands were about two inches in length, having a minutely arboriform appearance, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... produces an arboriform colony, the main trunk or stolon being adherent to some stone or piece of wood. The substance of the wall of the cells is formed ..."

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