arboreal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   inhabiting or frequenting trees

   Arboreal apes.

2. 2
   adj

   Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.

   1650, Walter Charleton (translator), “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds” in A Ternary of Paradoxes, by Jan Baptist van Helmont, London: William Lee, p. 72, High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of the microcosmical spirit, which without any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry:.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Covered or filled with trees.

   The breadth of the arboreal landscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk.

From Latin arboreus (“tree-like”) + -al, mid-17th century.

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