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English
Etymology
From Latin arboresco.
Verb
arboresce (third-person singular simple present arboresces, present participle arborescing, simple past and past participle arboresced)
- To become a tree or tree-like, branching.
1805, Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 95:The arteries arboresce copiously upon the reticular coat of the muscular fibre, and in warm-blooded animals these vessels are of sufficient capacity to admit the red particles of blood, but the intrinsic matter of muscle, contained within the ultimate cylinder, has no red particles.
Translations
to become a tree or tree-like
Latin
Verb
arborēsce
- second-person singular present active imperative of arborēscō
Portuguese
Verb
arboresce
- inflection of arborescer:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative