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Arborescent

//ɑːbəˈɹɛsənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 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. 1
    resembling a tree in form and branching structure wordnet

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.

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