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Dendroid Resembling Tree Form Reef Fantastic Jungle Corals

word dendroid
definition Resembling a tree in form.
eg_sentence The reef was a fantastic jungle, its dendroid corals resembling luminous, poisonous trees in a landscape of bizarre beauty.
explanation Dendrology is the study of trees, and those who do the studying are called dendrologists. So dendroid describes something that “branches” in all directions from a central “trunk” in an irregular way. The word is almost always used by biologists, who often speak of dendroid seaweeds, dendroid moss, and dendroid algae
IPA dendroid*

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