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Definition of Dendroidal
1. Adjective. Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. "Dendriform sponges"
Similar to: Branchy
Derivative terms: Arbor, Arbor, Arbor
Medical Definition of Dendroidal
1. Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike. Origin: Gr. Treelike; tree + form: cf. F. Dendroide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dendroidal
Literary usage of Dendroidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"By JD HEATON, MD In this communication attention was drawn to the peculiarities
of the dendroidal forms developed upon some purely mineral crystals when ..."
2. Outlines of Oryctology: An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic by James Parkinson (1830)
"Although ramified and dendroidal, ... or dendroidal, composed of two sorts of
distinct parts; one a solid, central axis, and the other a fleshy ..."
3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1870)
"In this communication attention was drawn to the peculiarities ofc^i]^ dendroidal
forms developed upon some purely mineral crystals when ..."
4. Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and Students by Joseph Colin Francis Johnson (1898)
"Locality near Adelaide, now showing gold freely in mammillary and dendroidal form.
" (2) Stone from New South Wales, showing gold artificially introduced in ..."
5. Reports and Papers by Iowa Geological Survey (1906)
"In the road one-half mile east and at a little greater elevation the rock is of
a decidedly lithographic type in some layers. The dendroidal ..."
6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"... dendroidal . . . . Calicos somewhat unequal in size, often almost circular
and witk rather a thick margin." "This coral bears great resemblance to ..."
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