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Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1684, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture” in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearne, pp. 28-29, For the Parable may not [...] imply any or every grain of Mustard, but point at such a grain as from its fertile spirit, and other concurrent advantages, hath the success to become arboreous, shoot into such a magnitude, and acquire the like tallness.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Out of Time’s Abyss in The Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hastings, UK: Delphi Classics, 2014, Chapter 1, dense forests of eucalyptus and acacia and giant arboreous ferns with feathered fronds waving gently a hundred feet above their heads
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ligneous, woody
Antonyms: herbaceous
Covered or filled with trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wooded
Antonyms: none provided
Growing on trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Having a tree-like, branching structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
Examples
- 1698, William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Oxford: S. Smith and B. Walford, Table 56, [...] [the] Internal Concave Surface [of the Placenta Uterina] next the Amnios, Appears Cover’d with the Chorion; under which the Arboreous Disposition of its Blood-Vessels are elegantly Exprest.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dendritic
Antonyms: none provided
inhabiting or frequenting trees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
resembling a tree in form and branching structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda
- dendriform sponges
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
abounding in trees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an arboreous landscape
- violets in woodsy shady spots
- a woody area near the highway
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody
Antonyms: none provided
From Latin arbor (“tree”).
