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Definition of Tree-shaped
1. Adjective. Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. "Dendriform sponges"
Similar to: Branchy
Derivative terms: Arbor, Arbor, Arbor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tree-shaped
Literary usage of Tree-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Within recent years a much-branched or tree-shaped style of Rubber Plant has
attained a considerable ... By this method handsome, tree-shaped specimens of ..."
2. The Indian Forester (1878)
"... and supposing 1 foot to be the minimum upper girth of timber, then the tree
shaped like a cone will yield a log 44 feet long, whilst the other tree ..."
3. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"... a branching or tree-shaped developmental series, a veritable pedigree. ...
we obtain the tree-shaped, branching, systematic developmental series of ..."
4. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"... of the palaeontological development of all the branches of this tribe—forms
a branching or tree-shaped developmental series, a veritable pedigree. ..."
5. On the Meaning and Origin of the Fylfot and Swastika by Robert Philips Greg (1884)
"It may also be considered as a tree-shaped cross : Odin hung on a tree-shaped
cross, or perhaps on a tree only. This may have been connected with the Indian ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Said of tree-shaped small plants. Dendron. In Greek compounds, signifying a tree.
Dentate. With sharp spreading teeth. Depauperate. ..."
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