arborescent Englisch Deutsch:
arborescent Definition:
- Arborescent is a term used by the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari to characterize thinking marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism, and dualism. The term, first used in A Thousand Plateaus where it was opposed to the rhizome, comes from the way genealogy trees are drawn: unidirectional progress, with no possible retroactivity and continuous binary cuts . Rhizomes, on the contrary, mark a horizontal and non-hierarchical conception, where anything may be linked to anything else, with no respect whatsoever for specific species: rhizomes are heterogeneous links between things that have nothing to do between themselves . Horizontal gene transfer is also an example of rhizomes, opposed to the arborescent evolutionism theory. Deleuze also criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.[1]
| Arborescent (a.) Resembling a tree |
| arborescent plant having the shape or characteristics of a tree |
| a arboreal / arboreous / arborescent / arboresque / arboriform / dendriform / dendroid dendroidal treelike / tree-shaped resembling a tree in form and branching structure, "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda", "dendriform sponges" |
arborescent Synonyme:
| ramous V-shaped Y-shaped arboreal arborescent arboriform biforked bifurcate bifurcated bowery branched branching branchlike branchy crotched dendriform dendritic foliaged foliate foliated foliose forked forking forklike furcate leafy leaved leavy pronged ramate ramified ramose tree-shaped treelike tridentlike trifurcate trifurcated twiggy |
| piny arborary arboreal arboreous arborescent arboresque arborical arboriform backwoodsman briar-hopper brush ape bushlike bushman bushy citrous clam digger coniferous cracker deciduous dendriform dendritic dendroid desert rat evergreen forester frontiersman hardwood hillbilly hinterlander mountain man mountaineer nondeciduous redneck ridge runner scrubbly scrubby scrublike shrubby shrublike softwood treelike woodlander woodman woodsman |
| arboreal V-shaped Y-shaped arborary arboreous arborescent arboresque arborical arboriform biforked bifurcate bifurcated branched branching branchlike bushlike bushy citrous coniferous crotched deciduous dendriform dendritic dendroid evergreen forked forking forklike furcate hardwood nondeciduous piny pronged ramous scrubbly scrubby scrublike shrubby shrublike softwood tree-shaped treelike tridentlike trifurcate trifurcated |