ARBORIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arborize mean? 

• ARBORIZE (verb)
  The verb ARBORIZE has 1 sense:

1. branch out like trees

  Familiarity information: ARBORIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARBORIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they arborize    ... he / she / it arborizes   
Past simple: arborized   
Past participle: arborized   
-ing form: arborizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Branch out like trees

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

arborise; arborize

Context example:

nerve fibers arborize

Hypernyms (to "arborize" is one way to...):

branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

arbor (tree (as opposed to shrub))

 Context examples 

It is characterized by the formation of arborizing and curving capillaries.

(Chicken-Wire Vasculature, NCI Thesaurus)