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Meanings of arboreal in English
Portuguese
arbóreo Of or relating to or formed by trees.
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Resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
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Examples for "arborescent"
Examples for "arborescent"
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An arborescent Acacia, in dense thickets, intercepted our course several times.
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They were a species of arborescent yucca, then unknown to botanists.
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Above the region of arborescent heaths, called Monte Verde, is the region of ferns.
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The irregularities of surface and arborescent appearance are well shown.
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Nothing but the signs of a sickly vegetation, nowhere arborescent.
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I came to a thick treelike stone column and stopped.
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The tendrils of a treelike plant suddenly drooped, like snakes lowering themselves to the ground.
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Evolution in non-varying populations might be treelike and genealogical, but such a process could not be Darwinian.
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Its towering interior is dominated by a tall, treelike core, criss-crossed by bridges and movable mechanical parts.
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He lounged in his chair, treelike legs across his desk, to show Velma the bottoms of his shoes.
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Marco prowled uneasily along the bank and disappeared up a steep, tree-shaped slope.
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Isabel got a small Christmas tree-shaped charm to add to her silver Pandora bracelet.
3
A pine-tree-shaped air freshener bounced around under the rearview mirror.
4
I fished out a Christmas-tree-shaped air freshener from the glove box and hung it from the rear-view mirror.
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They said that the tree-shaped cloud was the sign of an eruption; but the hotel-keepers here are always predicting that.
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Both Woola and I had several narrow escapes from these greedy, arboreous monsters.
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Locality near Adelaide, now showing gold freely in mammillary and dendroidal form.
Usage of arboreal in English
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Yes, you read that right: 500 feet of an arboreal plant-filled chimney.
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Among the arboreal productions the alder and birch were the most numerous.
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Another recently acquired skill was tree climbing, thanks to Zoe's arboreal ambitions.
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Once under the arboreal cover, the city was very much in evidence.
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Heredity again, for the snake was the worst enemy of arboreal man.
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The carnivorous beetles at Caripí were, like those of Pará, chiefly arboreal.
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Head elongate; ears round; feet arboreal, naked below; tail semi-nude; pelage not spiny.
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In fact, in arboreal terms, it's a story that brings two communities together.
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For orangutans, the largest predominantly arboreal primates, discontinuous canopy presents a particular challenge.
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One afternoon late in August the tree was alive with its arboreal aristocracy.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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And so they came to the swart arboreal precipice of the unpassable forest.
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Peter was still entranced by this intricate arboreal obscenity when Roman appeared alone.
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There he was, however, a tailed man with distinctly arboreal hands and feet.
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The generally arboreal character of the Primates justifies this conclusion.
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Indeed, I think there is no nest in the woods-noarboreal nest-sowell concealed.
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