Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arborous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ar-borous
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.

Example Sentences

"an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation"
"[…] from under shadie arborous roof, Soon as they forth were come to open sight Of day-spring,"
"1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dedication to the Reverend George Coleridge” in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle, 2nd edition, pp. x-xi, […] the Tree […] whose old boughs, That hang above us in an arborous roof, Stirr’d by the faint gale of departing May Send their loose blossoms slanting o’er our heads!"
"[…] they had no sense of their condition; they were happy in a flowery, an arborous Sicilian garden: the volcano was below, and the giant earthquake only asleep."
"The thought of his other son […] married […] for four years and living in the arborous suburb, Vasant Vihar, in Delhi, disturbed him only remotely,"

Inflected Forms

arbourous (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

arboreal arboreous

Synonyms

arborical arboreal arborary

Questions

What does arborous mean?: Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.

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