arboreal
/ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɑɹˈbɔɹi.əl/
- British English: /ɑːˈbɔːɹɪ.əl/