Arborescent
/ɑːbəˈɹɛsənt/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
"Hydatica. Stem arborescent, jointed, branched; leaves long, linear."
- 2 Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).
"Gilles Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory."
Adjective
- 1 resembling a tree in form and branching structure wordnet
Example
More examples"Hydatica. Stem arborescent, jointed, branched; leaves long, linear."
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.