arboreal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin arboreus (“tree-like”) + -al, mid-17th century.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: arboreals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.
pos: adj
examples: High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of the microcosmical spirit, which without any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry:
The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
In the mild breezes of the west and of the east lofty trees wave in different directions their first class foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.
Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue […] but here the arboreal green and the pollen-hazy light, the infrequent trucks and cars, the casual pace of the few strollers at the park’s border all created the effect of an outlying area in a modest Southern city […]
No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
gloss: Living in or among trees.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Typically, tarantulas are either terrestrial or arboreal, but the Chilobrachys natanicharum can live in both enivronments^([sic]), the researchers said, demonstrating its adaptability.
gloss: Covered or filled with trees.
pos: adj
examples: 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
gloss: Any tree-dwelling creature.
pos: noun
examples: So, by learning to use their eyes to more and more advantage the arboreals added another treasure to the foundation of human intelligence.
Related words: arbor
arborescent
arboreous
arborous
boreal
dendritic
sylvan
Derived words: arborealism
arborealist
arboreality
arboreally
Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
nonarboreal
semiarboreal
subarboreal
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شجري
lang: Breton
word: gwezheñvel
lang: Dutch
word: boomachtig
lang: Finnish
word: puu-
lang: French
word: arborescent
lang: German
word: baumähnlich
lang: German
word: baumartig
lang: Ido
word: arborala
lang: Italian
word: arboreo
lang: Italian
word: arboricolo
lang: Persian
word: درختی
roman: deraxti
lang: Portuguese
word: arbóreo
lang: Russian
word: древе́сный
roman: drevésnyj
lang: Spanish
word: arbóreo
lang: Turkish
word: ağaçlık
lang: Turkish
word: ağaçsı
lang: Ukrainian
word: деревни́й
roman: derevnýj
lang: Welsh
word: coedol
lang: Welsh
word: coedaidd