Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tree-like; dendriform; ramified or arborescent; branching like a tree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike; branching.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling a tree in form and branching structure
Examples
“Three succulent and two dendroid species of Euphorbia occur in the southwestern corner of Morocco, and except for Euphorbia resinifera, are most highly developed close to the sea where mists are frequent and summer temperatures are ameliorated.”
Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
“The evidence of palaeontology is deficient, if for no other reason than that many animal organisms could not be preserved at all on account of their soft bodies; many animal groups have, nevertheless, received an unusual increase (mollusks, radiata, fish, saurians, vertebrates, and dendroid plants).”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘dendroid’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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-oids
words taking the suffix -oid. because i wanted to use the word zomboid as in "having the likeness of a zombie". and yes, flavenoids is adopted. we'll tell her when she's older...
zomboid, rhomboid, planetoid, factoid, humanoid, asteroid, trapezoid, alkaloid, android, voidoid, woidies, metroid and 22 more...
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Flowers, plants, trees
ligneous, primose path, dendroid, wormwood, frisee, sylvan, mimotype
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