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Definition of Arboriform
1. Adjective. Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. "Dendriform sponges"
Similar to: Branchy
Derivative terms: Arbor, Arbor, Arbor
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
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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