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arborescent

Pronunciation: /ɑːbəˈɹɛsənt/

The English word “arborescent” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
  2. Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).

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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