Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a tree or trees.
- Living on or among trees; living in the forests; pertaining to such a life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective abounding in trees.
- adjective [U.S.] a day appointed for planting trees and shrubs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
trees - adjective Abounding in trees
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abounding in trees
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Examples
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But the young man was prepared, and turning he ran with the swiftness of a hare toward the nearest tree, a huge, arboraceous fern towering upon the verge of the little clearing.
The Eternal Savage 1914
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These poles she carried high into her tree and with them constructed a flooring across two stout branches binding the poles together and also to the branches with fibers from the tough arboraceous grasses that grew in profusion near the stream.
Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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We were in the middle of a broad and now sluggish river the banks of which were lined by giant, arboraceous ferns, raising their mighty fronds fifty, one hundred, two hundred feet into the quiet air.
The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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The third is an arboraceous St. John's wort (_Hypericum Schimperi_ [4]), which I found growing in a valley of Manicaland, at a height of nearly 4000 feet above the sea.
Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880
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Mbeu is a climbing, arboraceous plant, and yields a very pleasant fruit, which tastes like gooseberries: its seeds are very minute.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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Mbéu is a climbing, arboraceous plant, and yields a very pleasant fruit, which tastes like gooseberries: its seeds are very minute.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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And then, far from its original bed in the rock, amid the jerkings of a cockling sea, the mass breaks through the supporting float, and settles far beneath, amid the green and silent twilight of the bottom, where its mosses and lichens yield their place to stony encrustations of deep purple, and to miniature thickets of arboraceous zoöphites.
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He joined in the rising of 1896, and was, I believe, taken prisoner and shot.] [Footnote 53: It was here only, on the banks of a stream, that I observed the extremely handsome arboraceous St. - John's-wort (_Hypericum
Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880
lyuds commented on the word arboraceous
Example: forest or michigan :)
August 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word arboraceous
Are you from Michigan, lyuds? Beautiful state. :-)
August 26, 2008