arborize

present singular third person arborizes · participle present arborizing · participle past arborized · past arborized

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of arborise.

   A hierarchy […] is not like a row of organ pipes; it is like a tree, arborizing downward.

   1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation, New York: Macmillan, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 433

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   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 […]

   1967, Christine Brooke-Rose, “The Foot”, in Susan Williams, Richard Glyn Jones, editors, The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, London: Penguin, published 1996, page 187

   The vessels penetrate the clavipectoral fascia […]. They then arborize the underside of the pectoralis major.

   1991, Donald G. McQuarrie, “Techniques of Resection and Reconstruction for Tongue and Mouth Cancer”, in John S. Najarian, John P. Delaney, editors, Progress in Cancer Surgery, St. Louis: Mosby, page 254

   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 […]

   2008, Jen Weaverling, editor, Creative Flower Gardening, Minnetonka, MN: National Home Gardening Club, page 128

   His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.

   2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, New York: Norton