arborize

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
8

Definition of arborize

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of arborise.
    “A hierarchy […] is not like a row of organ pipes; it is like a tree, arborizing downward.”
    “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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Latin arbor (“tree”) + -ize.

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