arborise

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To develop a tree-like appearance. intransitive
    — The nerve fibre arborises into multiple branches.
  2. To cause (something) to develop a tree-like appearance. transitive
    — Tall, wide shrubs take up a huge amount of space in a small garden, so remove the lower limbs to provide more space underneath. […] When you “arborize” the shrub by limbing it up, you’ll discover an elegant, multi-trunked structure […]
  3. To penetrate or fill (an area) with a tree-like structure. transitive
    — The imitation neurones I am composed of agitate their dendrites like mad ganglia that arborize the system as the cell bodies dance along the axis cylinder within the fibres of the foot that isn’t there […]

词形变化

arborises present,singular,third-person arborising participle,present arborised participle,past arborised past arborize alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
arborization

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ-
Proto-Italic *arðōs
Old Latin arbos
Latin arbor
English -ise
English arborise
From Latin arbor (“tree”) + English -ise.
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