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Arboreous

adjective
1.
Inhabiting or frequenting trees.  Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living.
2.
Abounding in trees.  Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody.  "Violets in woodsy shady spots" , "A woody area near the highway"
3.
Resembling a tree in form and branching structure.  Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike.  "Dendriform sponges"





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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


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