Meanings of tree-like in English

Note how Hilgendorf depicts his phylogeny in a conventionally tree-like form.

Well, thou hast a prickly and yet a tree-like look.

Dendrimers are regular tree-like macromolecules accessible by chemical synthesis from a variety of building blocks.

A much-branched bush, of quite a tree-like character, but rarely more than 3 feet high.

A small Christmas tree-like object sat on the table.

When she turned, he saw a sweatstain that looked vaguely tree-like rising up her back.

From low tree-like stems close-growing green branches raised their hardy ever-green leaves and unfading flowers.

A distinct and very hardy hybrid, being shrubby and tree-like in shape, but withal very dwarf.

The bronchial tubes are the continuation of the windpipe, and branch tree-like until they become very fine.

Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa and tree-like ferns covered the foreground.

Thinly planted woods rose to view, and small tree-like mimosas, bushes of acacia, and tufts of CURRA-MANTEL.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Internal footridges and tree-like struts connect the two gallery buildings, the former Supreme Court and City Hall.

Computational analyses of the morphological properties of the captured neurons require first converting the structural information into digital tree-like reconstructions.

Very interesting when bearing its roundish winged fruits; 8-10 ft., but becoming larger and tree-like.

The stalks, the monstrous tree-like growths they'd first encountered only weeks ago, should have been a long way out to sea.

Compared with the grand, tree-like self-sufficiency of his demeanour, the vanity and curiosity of the Scot seem uneasy, vulgar, and immodest.