Monkeys are arboreal animals which make themselves at home in genealogical trees.
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Arboreal
//ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl//
Synonyms for "arboreal" (61 found)
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Adjective(6 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
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2 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
8 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
39 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- شجري adj (pertaining to trees)
Breton
3 entries- annezer-gwez adj (living in or among trees)
- gwezennek adj (living in or among trees)
- gwezheñvel adj (pertaining to trees)
Catalan
1 entries- arborícola adj (living in or among trees)
Dutch
3 entries- arboreal adj (living in or among trees)
- boomachtig adj (pertaining to trees)
- boomlevend adj (living in or among trees)
Finnish
2 entries- puu adj (pertaining to trees)
- puussa elävä adj (living in or among trees)
French
2 entries- arborescent adj (pertaining to trees)
- arboricole adj (living in or among trees)
German
4 entries- arboricol adj (living in or among trees)
- baumartig adj (pertaining to trees)
- baumlebend adj (living in or among trees)
- baumähnlich adj (pertaining to trees)
Icelandic
1 entries- trjábýll adj (living in or among trees)
Ido
1 entries- arborala adj (pertaining to trees)
Irish
1 entries- crannach adj (living in or among trees)
Italian
3 entries- arboreo adj (pertaining to trees)
- arboricolo adj (pertaining to trees)
- arboricolo adj (living in or among trees)
Persian
1 entries- درختی adj (pertaining to trees)
Polish
1 entries- nadrzewny adj (living in or among trees)
Portuguese
3 entries- arborícola adj (living in or among trees)
- arbóreo adj (pertaining to trees)
- arbóreo adj (living in or among trees)
Russian
2 entries- древе́сный adj (pertaining to trees)
- древе́сный adj (living in or among trees)
Spanish
2 entries- arborícola adj (living in or among trees)
- arbóreo adj (pertaining to trees)
Swedish
1 entries- trädlevande adj (living in or among trees)
Tagalog
1 entries- kakahuyning adj (living in or among trees)
Turkish
2 entries- ağaçlık adj (pertaining to trees)
- ağaçsı adj (pertaining to trees)
Ukrainian
1 entries- деревни́й adj (pertaining to trees)
Welsh
3 entries- coedaidd adj (pertaining to trees)
- coedol adj (pertaining to trees)
- prendrig adj (living in or among trees)
Sample sentences
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Tamanduas are a species of arboreal anteaters.
Source: tatoeba (13040695)
1650, Walter Charleton (translator), “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds” in A Ternary of Paradoxes, by Jan Baptist van Helmont, London: William Lee, p. 72, High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of the microcosmical spirit, which without any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry:
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The sleek Brazilian jaguar Does not in its arboreal gloom Distil so rank a feline smell As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
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