arboreal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromLatinarboreus(“tree-like”)+-al,mid-17th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American)IPA(key):/ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl/
- (UK)IPA(key):/ɑːˈbɔːɹɪ.əl/
Audio(Southern England): (file) - Rhymes:-ɔːɹiəl
Adjective
[edit]arboreal
- Of, relating to, or resembling atree.
- 1650,Walter Charleton(translator), “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds” inA Ternary of Paradoxes,byJan Baptist van Helmont,London: William Lee, p. 72,[1]
- High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of themicrocosmical spirit,which without anyarborealtrunck produceth a true Cherry:
- 1919,T. S. Eliot,“Whispers of Immortality”,inSelected Poems[2],Penguin, published1948:
- The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in itsarborealgloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.
- 1922,James Joyce,Ulysses[3],London: The Egoist Press, page282:
- In the mild breezes of the west and of the east lofty trees wave in different directions their first class foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of thearborealworld with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.
- 1979,William Styron,chapter 2, inSophie’s Choice[4],New York: Random House, page37:
- Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue[…]but here thearborealgreen and the pollen-hazy light, the infrequent trucks and cars, the casual pace of the few strollers at the park’s border all created the effect of an outlying area in a modest Southern city[…]
- 1650,Walter Charleton(translator), “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds” inA Ternary of Paradoxes,byJan Baptist van Helmont,London: William Lee, p. 72,[1]
- Living in or among trees.
- 1872,Charles Darwin,chapter 7, inThe Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection[5],6th edition, London: Odhams Press, page233:
- If the harvest mouse had been more strictlyarboreal,it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order.
- 1911,Ambrose Bierce,“monkey”,inThe Devil’s Dictionary,New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.:The Neale Publishing Company,→OCLC:
- Anarborealanimal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
- 2002,Jeffrey Eugenides,Middlesex[6],New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,Book 3, p. 239:
- […]faced with this emergency, Tessie took Chapter Eleven and me up to the attic. Maybe it was a vestige of ourarborealpast; we wanted to climb up and out of danger.
- Covered or filled with trees.
- Synonym:arboreous
- 1885,Richard Jefferies,“Forest”, inThe Open Air,[7],London: Chatto and Windus, page188:
- The breadth of thearboreallandscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk.
- 1945,Elizabeth Bowen,“The Demon Lover”, inThe Demon Lover and Other Stories,[8],London: Jonathan Cape, page96:
- She married him, and the two of them settled down in this quiet,arborealpart of Kensington:
- 1995,Simon Schama,Landscape and Memory[9],New York: Knopf,Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 426:
- mountains, unlike thearborealgarden and the sacred stream, had gone unmentioned in the account of Creation given in Genesis
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pertaining to trees
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living in or among trees
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]arboreal(pluralarboreals)
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