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Record 1 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

The dendroid graptolites are so-called because of the many-branched treelike mode of growth, which is common to many of their genera.

CONT

Dendroid graptolites (order Dendroidea) are extinct sessile colonial organisms with a multi-branched erect rhabdosome of compound stipes consisting of regularly alternating thecae originating from an internal stolon. ... Dendroids were common in shallow marine environments from the Mid Cambrian to the Carboniferous ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

On divise les Graptolites en deux groupes principaux : 1° les «Dendroïdes», dépourvus de virgula ou axe chitineux de soutien, possèdent trois types de thèques dont les rangées sont finement ramifiées et réunies entre elles par des apophyses [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
DEF

Having a tree-like appearance.

CONT

Dendritic minerals include branching aggregates of crystals, for example metallic elements such as silver, gold, copper, etc., but more generally they occur in the form of film-deposits in cracks, joints, crevices, etc., deposited by percolating water.

OBS

arborescent: Applied to minerals ... especially when fairly massive. If the mineral formation is so thin as to resemble the painting of a tree, it is generally called "dendritic."

PHR

Dendritic magnetite.

PHR

Arborized agate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
DEF

Qui prend, qui a la forme d'un arbre, en parlant [d'un minéral].

PHR

Magnétite dendritique.

PHR

Agate arborisée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mineralogía
DEF

De figura de dendrita.

OBS

dendrita: Cristales que se forman en las fisuras de las rocas, donde su conjunto adopta la forma de ramificaciones arborescentes.

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Record 3 2003-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
DEF

Treelike; shaped like a tree

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
DEF

Qui a la forme d'un arbre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
DEF

Con forma semejante a la de los árboles.

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Record 4 2003-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

[Said of a] Corallum composed of cylindrical corallites which branch irregularly in treelike manner. [Invertebrate Fossils; Elsevier publication on rugosa, 1973.]

CONT

A fasciculate corallum is: dendroid - if the corallites branch from each other in a dendritic pattern; phaceloid - if they develop in a subparallel arrangement with connecting processes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

La faune corallienne. [...] Quelques observations [...] doivent être signalées : la diversité de la morphologie des colonies, lamellaires, dendroïdes, phacéloïdes, en dôme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Paleontología
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