arboreous

== English == === Etymology === From Latin arbor (“tree”). === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈbɚ.iəs/ === Adjective === arboreous Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant) Synonyms: ligneous, woody Antonym: herbaceous 1684, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture” in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearne, pp. 28-29,[3] 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. 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Out of Time’s Abyss in The Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hastings, UK: Delphi Classics, 2014, Chapter 1,[5] dense forests of eucalyptus and acacia and giant arboreous ferns with feathered fronds waving gently a hundred feet above their heads Covered or filled with trees. Synonym: wooded (obsolete) Growing on trees. (obsolete, anatomy) Having a tree-like, branching structure. Synonym: dendritic 1698, William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Oxford: S. Smith and B. Walford, Table 56,[11] […] [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. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== arboreal arborous === References ===