Need another word that means the same as “arboreal”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “arboreal” in this overview.
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The synonyms of “Arboreal” are: arboreous, tree-living, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike, arborary, arborical, arborous
Arboreal as an Adjective
Definitions of "Arboreal" as an adjective
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “arboreal” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
- Inhabiting or frequenting trees.
- Resembling a tree in form and branching structure.
- Living in trees.
- Relating to trees.
- Of or relating to or formed by trees.
Synonyms of "Arboreal" as an adjective (13 Words)
arborary | Of or relating to or formed by trees. |
arboreous | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. An arboreous landscape. |
arborescent | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. Arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda. |
arboresque | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. |
arborical | Of or relating to or formed by trees. |
arboriform | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. |
arborous | Of or relating to or formed by trees. An arborous roof. |
dendriform | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. Dendriform sponges. |
dendroid | (of a plant, marine invertebrate, or structure) tree-shaped; branching. |
dendroidal | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. |
tree-living | Inhabiting or frequenting trees. |
tree-shaped | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. |
treelike | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. |
Usage Examples of "Arboreal" as an adjective
- Arboreal apes.
- Arboreal rodents.
Associations of "Arboreal" (30 Words)
arborescent | Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. Arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda. |
arboretum | A botanical garden devoted to trees. |
bamboo | The hard woody stems of bamboo plants used in construction and crafts and fishing poles. A section of bamboo about four feet long. |
batten | Secure with battens. Batten ships. |
botanical | Relating to botany. Botanical specimens. |
botany | All the plant life in a particular region or period. The botany of China. |
broadleaf | A tree or plant with wide flat leaves. |
bryophyte | A small flowerless green plant of the division Bryophyta, which comprises the mosses and liverworts. |
dendroid | (of a plant, marine invertebrate, or structure) tree-shaped; branching. |
evergreen | A person or thing of enduring freshness, success, or popularity. Evergreens planted to cut off the east wind. |
flora | The plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. Britain s native flora. |
flowering | Having a flower or bloom. Winter flowering heathers. |
foliage | Leaf-like architectural ornament. Healthy green foliage. |
forest | Establish a forest on previously unforested land. A pine forest. |
garden | Work in the garden. Botanical gardens. |
glade | An open space in a wood or forest. A forest glade. |
grass | Cover with grass. Anglers grassed 294 trout. |
grove | Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth. An olive grove. |
herbaceous | Characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part. |
horticultural | Of or relating to the cultivation of plants. Horticultural crops. |
ornithology | The branch of zoology that studies birds. |
plant | Put or set seeds seedlings or plants into the ground. Plant bugs in the dissident s apartment. |
riparian | Relating to wetlands adjacent to rivers and streams. The ranch s most expansive riparian habitat. |
shrub | A woody plant which is smaller than a tree and has several main stems arising at or near the ground. |
steppe | Extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia. |
tare | The weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo. |
tree | Stretch a shoe on a shoetree. Genealogical tree. |
vegetation | An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart. Pleistocene vegetation. |
woodland | Land covered with trees. Large areas of ancient woodland. |