arboreous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • […] the continental climate, that is, having a colder winter and warmer summer, capable of producing considerable vigour of arboreous vegetation, and not so favourable to the generating of […] peat-moss […]
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;
   • The country was no longer plain-land, but an arboreous wilderness interspersed with small fields and fruit orchards.
3. 3

   Growing on trees.

   • And those fruites whiche Galene calleth arboreous, are those growing vppon trees.
   • Mushromes are either terrestrial, which grow out of the earth, or arboreous, which adhere to the stocks of trees;
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   1. 4

      Having a tree-like, branching structure.

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

The neighborhood

• neighborarboreal
• neighborarborous