arboresce

English

Etymology

From Latin arboresco.

Verb

arboresce (third-person singular simple present arboresces, present participle arborescing, simple past and past participle arboresced)

1. To become a tree or tree-like, branching.
   • 1805, Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London‎^[1], 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

• Galician: arborecer (gl)
• Ido: arboreskar
• Portuguese: arborescer (pt), arvorecer

Latin

Verb

arborēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of arborēscō

Portuguese

Verb

arboresce

1. inflection of arborescer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative