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  • noun Plural form of arboreal.

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Examples

  • Omithoid, mammaloid, and reptiloid arboreals glided or flew through winding emerald tunnels.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • Ideally equipped for skimming silently across the treetops hundreds of meters above and picking off careless arboreals, the sky-devil found itself drawn to something deep in the well.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • He knows Madam Scorianza, who runs da house for arboreals.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • But then again, we'll be eating everything up — any and all ideas — with sustained glee: monstrous Army Corps megaengineering; the Golden Gate Dam; stilt forests; mobile sewers; genetically modified water sucking post-arboreals; SpongeOakland; San Francisco, Utah; bay-to-river-to-rivulets land reclamation; Climate Refugee ID cards for an odd/even year system of temporary displacement; walking houses; container wetlands as wildlife preserves and wastewater treatment plants; The Super Awesome Supersurface of Super Awesomeness.

    San Francisco As It Will Be 2009

  • But then again, we'll be eating everything up — any and all ideas — with sustained glee: monstrous Army Corps megaengineering; the Golden Gate Dam; stilt forests; mobile sewers; genetically modified water sucking post-arboreals; SpongeOakland; San Francisco, Utah; bay-to-river-to-rivulets land reclamation; Climate Refugee ID cards for an odd/even year system of temporary displacement; walking houses; container wetlands as wildlife preserves and wastewater treatment plants; The Super Awesome Supersurface of Super Awesomeness.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Around her arboreals ought to have been playing in the trees, fliers circling overhead, and small stingless arthropods should be hard at work pollinating the thousands of blossoms.

    Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • The hopper descended slowly between towering arboreals that Bob called asparagus trees and landed on the only bare patch of rock within a kilometer of our target yaga.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • Fully awake, he took in the envelop­ing hylaea, the glistening arboreals, the brilliant‑hued flowers, the vines and lianas and epiphytes and sym­biotes.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Fully awake, he took in the envelop-ing hylaea, the glistening arboreals, the brilliant-hued flowers, the vines and lianas and epiphytes and sym-biotes.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Grassy hills, streams, small waterfalls, flowers, trees alive with delicate, brightly hued arboreals; all contributed to a placid tranquillity that belied the seriousness of the situation.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

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