treeness
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释义与例句
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1.
The essence of what it means to be a tree; the qualities that make a tree what it is.
不可数A tree may, for the imagination, present forcibly one of its qualities at a time; it may be a green dome of shade on a hot day, a ladder of retreat for a man from the attentions of a mad bull, a peg on which an apple hangs, a screen for an assassin, a choir for birds; and its own business of spreading out its million pores to the air and propagating its kind, which comes nearest to being its “treeness,” may be what occupies the artist least and bores him most.
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2.
The suitability of an evolutionary tree for representing the structure of a population; the degree to which a population structure can be accurately described as a tree of descent, with different branches evolving independently after they split.
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The condition of being a tree; acyclicity and connectedness.
不可数 数学
词源
From tree + -ness.
来源:wiktionary