Arborise

Quick meaning: Arborise is a verb meaning (intransitive) To develop a tree-like appearance.

Meaning

(intransitive) To develop a tree-like appearance.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to develop a tree-like appearance.
2. (transitive) To penetrate or fill (an area) with a tree-like structure.

Example Sentences

The nerve fibre arborises into multiple branches.

A hierarchy […] is not like a row of organ pipes; it is like a tree, arborizing downward.

His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.

The vessels penetrate the clavipectoral fascia […]. They then arborize the underside of the pectoralis major.

Word Forms

• arborises
• arborising
• arborised
• arborize

Synonyms for arborise

Depending on context, synonyms include arborize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arborize, tree, forest, crisp, copse, rusticate.

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