arborescent

• We could but now and then catch a glimpse of the scenery through our coach window by thawing a place in the thickly covered glass, which was so plated with the arborescent frost as not to yield to the warmth of the sun at midday. —  Letters and Journals 01
• The water in our pitchers froze by the fireside, and the glass on the windows, even in rooms comfortably warmed, was encrusted with arborescent frost. —  Letters and Journals 01
• Among the latter was a huge arborescent grass nearly a foot in diameter, with hard, smooth outer wood and a pithy core. —  Carson of Venus
• Here they are arborescent-- tree-ferns--rivalling their cousins the palms in stature, and like them, with their tall, straight stems and lobed leaves, contributing to the picturesqueness of the landscape. —  The Rifle Rangers
• A suggestion which may naturally enough present itself is, that these curious bodies are the result of some process of aggregation which has taken place in the carbonate of lime; that, just as in winter, the rime on our windows simulates the most delicate and elegantly arborescent foliage -- proving that the mere mineral water may, under certain conditions, assume the outward form of organic bodies -- so this mineral substance, carbonate of lime, hidden away in the bowels of the earth, has taken the shape of these chambered bodies. —  Autobiography and Selected Essays

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