arborescent

• This, like the ivy, when it rises above the wall, becomes arborescent, and ceases to throw out tendrils There are many other provisions for aiding plants in climbing. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852
• 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
• Arborescent plants of this family, like the arborescent ferns, now grow only in tropical countries, and their being found in the coal beds in all latitudes is consequently held as an additional proof, that at this era a warm climate was extended much farther to the north than at present. —  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
• Palm-trees appear in latitude 37 degrees; and an arborescent grass, very like the bamboo, three degrees further north. —  The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
• Eurybia argophylla, musk-tree of Tasmania, an arborescent Composite. —  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2

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