ARBOREAL • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Arboreal

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɑrbˈɔriəl/ Listen

adjective

Arboreal adj.

Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees.

Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. "Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal."

See images of 'Arboreal'

Etymology of 'Arboreal'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Text size: A A

Share |

"Arboreal" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the growth upon the islet was of much more recent date than that upon any part of the main island in sight from that spot; a fact which tended to confirm my previous suspicion that at the time of the burial of the treasure the soil of the islet had been bare, or nearly so, of arboreal growth. ...

— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood

Read full book for free!

... was by this time quite shocked at her own thoughts, and yet they would go on with their freaks. Great vistas of history opened, and she and her aunt were near reverting to the primitive and passionate and entirely indecorous arboreal—were swinging from branches by the arms, and really going on quite dread-fully—when their arrival at the Palsworthys' happily checked this play of fancy, and brought Ann Veronica back to the exigencies of the wrappered ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

Read full book for free!

... our neighbors realized what horticultural possibilities our noble expanse of front yard offered they fairly overwhelmed us with floral and arboreal gifts. During that unusually warm spell we had about two months ago there was scarcely an hour of the day that a wheelbarrow or a man servant or both did not arrive bearing lilac sprouts from the Leets, ...

— The House - An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice • Eugene Field

Read full book for free!

... sister-in-law by betaking herself for the night to the branches of a spreading beech. Whether in actual life this is a probable course of conduct need not exercise your mind; at least not enough to prevent your enjoyment of her arboreal adventure, which comes, as I say, with the more freshness as a break in what might else be a surfeit of proposals. In effect, a gallant little florin's worth of fiancailles; though, if you wish to avoid feeling like a matrimonial agency, you will be ...

— Punch, Volume 156, 26 March 1919 • Various

Read full book for free!

... dormouse, a special favorite of the ancients, has nothing to do with mice. The fat dormouse of the South of Europe is the size of a rat, arboreal ...

— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius

Read full book for free!

More quotes...