Definitions
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- adverb In an
arboreal manner - adverb With regard to
trees
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Examples
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Once we flew in the air, and once we dwelt arboreally and were afraid of the dark.
Chapter 21 2010
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In other news: ursine defecation has been found to be common in arboreally dense regions and the Pope has been found to believe in Catholicism to the exclusion of other faiths.
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I believe that tree is a maple; you tell me it's really an elm; that will defeat my belief that it's a maple if I think you know what you are talking about and aim to tell the truth, but not if I think you are even less arboreally informed than I, or that there is only a 50-50 chance that you are telling what you take to be the truth.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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Wherever they could, dwellers went arboreally rather than on the ground.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits.
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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Once we flew in the air, and once we dwelt arboreally and were afraid of the dark.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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The arboreally inspired offerings are the Hazel and the Elm, but feature a
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