arborescent

Meaning

Adjective

Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).

Origin

From , present active participle of arboresco. First attested around 1675. The philosophical sense refers to the way genealogy trees are drawn.

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