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Treelike in shape.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

Having a treelike appearance. "An arborized or moss agate." Wright.

Formed by trees. [Obs.] From under shady, arborous roof. Milton.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

A branch of a tree.

often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

ged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the t…

Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." Dryden.

To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.