arborous

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adjective

Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.

“an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation”

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivearborous (not comparable)

alternative arbourous

  1. not comparableFormed by trees; filled or covered with trees.

    an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation

    4 more examples

    […] from under shadie arborous roof, Soon as they forth were come to open sight Of day-spring,

    1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 137-139

    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.

    1825, John Galt, chapter 4, in The Omen, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Epoch 4, page 144

    The thought of his other son […] married […] for four years and living in the arborous suburb, Vasant Vihar, in Delhi, disturbed him only remotely,

    2000, Amit Chaudhuri, A New World, London: Picador, pages 67–68

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveof or relating to or formed by trees

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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