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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to or resembling a tree.
  • adjective Living in trees; arboreal.
  • adjective Having many trees; wooded.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or belonging to trees; living on or among trees; frequenting forests; arboraceous.
  • Having the form, constitution, and habits of a tree; having more or less the character of a tree; arborescent.
  • Abounding in trees; wooded.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub.
  • adjective Pertaining to, or growing on, trees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Woody (as opposed to herbaceous).
  • adjective Wooded, covered with trees.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling a tree in form and branching structure
  • adjective inhabiting or frequenting trees
  • adjective abounding in trees

Etymologies

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Latin arbor meaning tree

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