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Definition of Treelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. "Dendriform sponges"
Similar to: Branchy
Derivative terms: Arbor, Arbor, Arbor
Definition of Treelike
1. Adjective. Having some characteristics of a tree; resembling or similar to a tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Treelike
1. resembling a tree [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treelike
Literary usage of Treelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"It may be said in general that as soon as land plants, more or less treelike in
habit, however low or primitive in character, appeared (such as the treelike ..."
2. Jehovah Himself Has Become King by Robert King (2005)
"If the cedar represented the entire system, of which all nations are part, there
would be no other treelike entity to compare it to, would there? ..."
3. Military Geology and Topography: A Presentation of Certain Phases of Geology by Herbert Ernest Gregory (1918)
"... upland may have treelike drainage and resemble a plateau, while the lowland
developed upon soft rock layers between the hard rock uplands may resemble a ..."
4. Publications by Society for Hebrew Literature (1872)
"All manner of treelike plants of the field was not yet on earth, ... V?1 (And
all manner of treelike plants, etc.) The object of this section is to acquaint ..."
5. Manual of Clinical Microscopy and Chemistry: Prepared for the Use of by Hermann Lenhartz (1904)
"These treelike coagula are usually white, but are occasionally tinged whitish red.
They most frequently appear in tubular form, less often as solid or flat, ..."
6. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"Again, the result may be just the opposite, a tall, upright, almost treelike
plant being produced. Some hybrids would run a distance of at least fifty feet. ..."
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