Arboreous

Quick meaning: Arboreous is an adjective meaning Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant).

Meaning

Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant).

More Meanings

1. Covered or filled with trees.
2. (obsolete) Growing on trees.
3. (obsolete, anatomy) Having a tree-like, branching structure.

Example Sentences

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

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;

Synonyms for arboreous

Depending on context, synonyms include ligneous, woody, wooded, dendritic, arboreal, arboraceous.

Antonyms for arboreous

Common opposites include herbaceous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arboreal, arboriform, arboraceous, treelike, arborescent, wooded.

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