Meaning of arboreous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant)
2. Covered or filled with trees.
3. Growing on trees.
   obsolete
4. Having a tree-like, branching structure.
   obsolete

Equivalents

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.”

“[…] the continental climate, that is, having a colder winter and warmer summer, capable of producing considerable vigour of arboreous vegetation, and not so favourable to the generating of […] peat-moss […]”

“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”

“But among Authours, we meet⟳ with nothing more frequent, and indeed more celebrated, than those Arboreous amenities and Plantations of Woods, which they call’d Luci;”

“The country was no longer plain-land, but an arboreous wilderness interspersed with small fields and fruit orchards.”

“And those fruites whiche Galene calleth arboreous, are those growing vppon trees.”

“Mushromes are either terrestrial, which grow⟳ out of the earth, or arboreous, which adhere to the stocks of trees;”

“The arboreous ramification of the Meditallium of the Cerebellum appearing, being cut⟳ right downwards.”

“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.”

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