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Arboreous   Listen
adjective
Arboreous  adj.  
1.
Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub.
2.
Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss.





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"Arboreous" Quotes from Famous Books



... of my signals, I judged that I had got a long way off from my friends; I therefore thought it prudent at once to climb a tree, hoping not to find it occupied by any arboreous ape or other creature. I therefore threw a vine over one of the lower boughs, by which means I was able to climb onto the branch. I then drew up the vine, so that I might be tolerably secure. There was still ...
— The Two Supercargoes - Adventures in Savage Africa • W.H.G. Kingston


Words linked to "Arboreous" :   branchy, tree-shaped, arbor, arboriform, arborescent, arboraceous, arboreal, dendroid, nonarboreal, tree-living, arboresque, wooded, woody, treelike


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