arboreal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.

   • The sleek Brazilian jaguar Does not in its arboreal gloom Distil so rank a feline smell As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
2. 2

   Living in or among trees.

   • If the harvest mouse had been more strictly arboreal, it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order.
   • An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
   • […] faced with this emergency, Tessie took Chapter Eleven and me up to the attic. Maybe it was a vestige of our arboreal past; we wanted to climb up and out of danger.
3. 3

   Covered or filled with trees.

   • The breadth of the arboreal landscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk.
   • She married him, and the two of them settled down in this quiet, arboreal part of Kensington:
   • mountains, unlike the arboreal garden and the sacred stream, had gone unmentioned in the account of Creation given in Genesis
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   1. 4

      Any tree-dwelling creature.

      • So, by learning to use their eyes to more and more advantage the arboreals added another treasure to the foundation of human intelligence.

The neighborhood

• neighborarbor
• neighborarborescent
• neighborarboreous
• neighborarborous
• neighborboreal
• neighbordendritic
• neighborsylvan