Arboreal \Ar*bo"re*al\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of
trees. --Cowley.
[1913 Webster]
2. Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. [1913 Webster]
Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]
arboreal
adj
1: of or relating to or formed by trees; "an arborous roof"
[syn: arborical, arboreal, arborary, arborous]
2: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn:
arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant: nonarboreal]
3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure;
"arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda";
"dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous,
arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform,
dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "arboreal": V-shaped, Y-shaped, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, branchlike, bushlike, bushy, citrous, coniferous, crotched, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, evergreen, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, hardwood, nondeciduous, piny, pronged, ramous, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shrubby, shrublike, softwood, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated
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