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arboreal

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ar⋅bo⋅re⋅al

  [ahr-bawr-ee-uhl, -bohr-]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to trees; treelike.
2. Also, arboreous. living in or among trees.
3. Zoology. adapted for living and moving about in trees, as the limbs and skeleton of opossums, squirrels, monkeys, and apes.
Origin:
1660–70; < L arbore(us) of trees (arbor tree + -eus -eous ) + -al 1

Related forms:
ar⋅bo⋅re⋅al⋅ly, adverb
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ar·bo·re·al   (är-bôr'ē-əl, -bōr'-)   
adj.  

  1. Relating to or resembling a tree.

  2. Living in trees; arboreous: arboreal apes.


[From Latin arboreus, from arbor, tree.]
ar·bo're·al·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

arboreal 
c.1667, from L. arbor "tree," of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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