arboreal
/ɑːˈbɔːɹɪ.əl/US/ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl/
arboreal adjective: of, relating to, or resembling a tree.
Adjective
arboreal (comparative more arboreal, superlative most arboreal)
- Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.
- High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of the microcosmical spirit, which without any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry:1650, Jan Baptist van Helmont, “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds”, in Walter Charleton, transl., A Ternary of Paradoxes, London: William Lee, page 72
- The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.1919, T. S. Eliot, “Whispers of Immortality”, in Selected Poems, Penguin, published 1948
- 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.1872, Charles Darwin, chapter 7, in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 6th edition, London: Odhams Press, page 233
- An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.1911, Ambrose Bierce, “monkey”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC
- Covered or filled with trees.
- The breadth of the arboreal landscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk.1885, Richard Jefferies, “Forest”, in The Open Air,, London: Chatto and Windus, page 188
- She married him, and the two of them settled down in this quiet, arboreal part of Kensington:1945, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover”, in The Demon Lover and Other Stories,, London: Jonathan Cape, page 96
- Synonyms:
- arboreous
Noun
arboreal (plural arboreals)
- 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.1971, Theo Lang, The difference between a man and a woman
arboreal meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Tagalog and Arabic
arboreal in Urdu
- شجری
arboreal in Bengali
- বৃক্ষবাসী
arboreal in Tagalog
- living in or among trees
- kakahuynin, puhuyin
arboreal in Arabic
- pertaining to trees
- شجري
More languagesFewer languages
- arboreal in Persian
- درختی deraxti
Examples of arboreal in a sentence
- That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Nov...
- Maybe it was a vestige of our arboreal past; we wanted to climb up and out of danger.2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Book 3, p. 239:
- mountains, unlike the arboreal garden and the sacred stream, had gone unmentioned in the account of Creation given in Genesis1995, Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 426:
Synonyms of arboreal
Forms of arboreal
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more arboreal |
| superlative | most arboreal |
| Noun | |
| plural | arboreals |
Origin of arboreal
From Latin arboreus (“tree-like”) + -al, mid-17th century.
Words formed from arboreal
Phrases with arboreal
Words that rhyme with arboreal
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
- tutorial
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- corporeal
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- scansorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
- boreal
Questions about arboreal
- What does arboreal mean?
- Arboreal means of, relating to, or resembling a tree.
- What is arboreal in Urdu?
- Arboreal in Urdu is شجری. See Arboreal meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use arboreal in a sentence?
- That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
- What part of speech is arboreal?
- Arboreal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce arboreal?
- Arboreal is pronounced /ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl/ (US).
Words near arboreal in the dictionary
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