branchlike
- adjective
- /ˈbrænʧlaɪk/
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ramificado
- We can perhaps approach an answer and better decipher the peculiar female figure by looking at her nearest counterpart—the one other personification I know of with branchlike appendages growing sideways out of her eyes.
Examples
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The earth elemental tumbled to the ground, while the tall tree stood, flailing about with its branchlike limbs.
Fiction book (1992) -
This correction, however, leads to visual ambiguity; it is indeed quite easy to mistake these branchlike rays for clubs and vision for blindness.
Academic text (2007) -
The tree creature reached out with its tough, branchlike hands—and promptly fell over as the longship rocked on a gentle swell.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artist created a sculpture with branchlike features, giving it a natural and organic appearance.
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The plant had branchlike stems that spread out in all directions, resembling the shape of a tree.
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His design was inspired by branchlike structures found in nature, which he incorporated into the building's facade.
Synonyms
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Having many branches like a tree
Having parts that spread out from a main part like a tree
Having parts that split and spread out like a tree
A plant or structure with many branches like a tree
A thing with parts that split into two or more branches
Shaped like a fork with two or more branches
Like a tree in shape because it has many branches
Shaped like a tree with branches
How Branchlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Branchlike is made of branch and -like, where branch is a part of a tree and -like means 'similar to'. So branchlike describes something that has the shape or pattern of a branch, like coral or leaf veins that spread out like a tree branch.