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What is the difference between arborescent and arbor?

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Arborescent is a related term of arbor.


As a adjective arborescent

is like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to a tree's; branching.

As a noun arbor is

a shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation or arbor can be an axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

arborescent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to a tree's; branching.
  • (philosophy) Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (opposed to the rhizome theory).
  • Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.

    Derived terms

    * arborescent appendage * arborescence

    arbor

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) arbour, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * arbour (chiefly British)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
  • A grove of trees.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  • A spindle of a wheel.