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Arboreous

//ɑɹˈbɚ.iəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant)

    "1684, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture” in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearne, pp. 28-29, For the Parable may not […] imply any or every grain of Mustard, but point at such a grain as from its fertile spirit, and other concurrent advantages, hath the success to become arboreous, shoot into such a magnitude, and acquire the like tallness."

  2. 2
    Covered or filled with trees.

    "But among Authours, we meet with nothing more frequent, and indeed more celebrated, than those Arboreous amenities and Plantations of Woods, which they call’d Luci;"

  3. 3
    Growing on trees. obsolete

    "And those fruites whiche Galene calleth arboreous, are those growing vppon trees."

  4. 4
    Having a tree-like, branching structure. obsolete

    "The arboreous ramification of the Meditallium of the Cerebellum appearing, being cut right downwards."

Adjective
  1. 1
    inhabiting or frequenting trees wordnet
  2. 2
    resembling a tree in form and branching structure wordnet
  3. 3
    abounding in trees wordnet

Etymology

From Latin arbor (“tree”).

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