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Meaning of arborise | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To develop a tree-like appearance.
    intransitive
  2. To cause (something) to develop a tree-like appearance.
    transitive
  3. To penetrate or fill (an area) with a tree-like structure.
    transitive

Examples

“The nerve fibre arborises into multiple branches.”
“Either in the spinal medulla or in the brain stem the axons end by arborising round nerve-cells and the impulses which they convey are transferred to these upper neurones.”
“A hierarchy […] is not like a row of organ pipes; it is like a tree, arborizing downward.”
“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 […]”
“His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.”
“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 […]”
“The vessels penetrate the clavipectoral fascia […]. They then arborize the underside of the pectoralis major.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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