adjective🔗ShareLike a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching."The veins on the back of his grandfather's hand were arborescent, branching out like the roots of an old oak tree. "appearancenaturebiologyplantstructureecologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareMarked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory)."Gilles Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory."theoryphilosophyliteratureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading