What does arborous mean?
Arborous means Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees..
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!
[…] from under shadie arborous roof, Soon as they forth were come to open sight Of day-spring,
[…] they had no sense of their condition; they were happy in a flowery, an arborous Sicilian garden: the volcano was below, and the giant earthquake only asleep.
The thought of his other son […] married […] for four years and living in the arborous suburb, Vasant Vihar, in Delhi, disturbed him only remotely,
Use arborous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Arborous means Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees..
Common synonyms include arboreal, arborical, arborary.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation
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