arboreal

adj

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.

   “1650, Walter Charleton (translator), “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds” in A Ternary of Paradoxes, by Jan Baptist van Helmont, London: William Lee, p. 72, High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of the microcosmical spirit, which without any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry:”

   “The sleek Brazilian jaguar Does not in its arboreal gloom Distil so rank a feline smell As Grishkin in a drawing-room.”

   “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 the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.”

   “Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue […] but here the arboreal green 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 […]”

   “No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.”

2. Living in or among trees.

   “If the harvest mouse had been more strictly arboreal, it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order.”

   “An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.”

   “[…] faced with this emergency, Tessie took Chapter Eleven and me up to the attic. Maybe it was a vestige of our arboreal past; we wanted to climb up and out of danger.”

   “Typically, tarantulas are either terrestrial or arboreal, but the Chilobrachys natanicharum can live in both enivronments^([sic]), the researchers said, demonstrating its adaptability.”

3. Covered or filled with trees.

   “The breadth of the arboreal landscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk.”

   “She married him, and the two of them settled down in this quiet, arboreal part of Kensington:”

   “mountains, unlike the arboreal garden and the sacred stream, had gone unmentioned in the account of Creation given in Genesis”

noun

1. Any tree-dwelling creature.

   “So, by learning to use their eyes to more and more advantage the arboreals added another treasure to the foundation of human intelligence.”