arborean

Adjective

arboreal (comparative more arboreal, superlative most arboreal)

1. 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
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.1872, Charles Darwin, chapter 7, in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 6th edition, London: Odhams Press, page 233
3. 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

   Synonyms:

   arboreous

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