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arborous

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation
  • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dedication to the Reverend George Coleridge” in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle, 2nd edition, pp. x-xi, [...] the Tree [...] whose old boughs, That hang above us in an arborous roof, Stirr’d by the faint gale of departing May Send their loose blossoms slanting o’er our heads!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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adjective

Meaning 2

of or relating to or formed by trees

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an arborous roof

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: arborical, arboreal, arborary

Antonyms: none provided

History

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