Definitions for arboreal

arboreal ar·bo·re·al

Spelling: [ahr-bawr-ee-uh l, -bohr-]
IPA: /ɑrˈbɔr i əl, -ˈboʊr-/

Arboreal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in arboreal (aabelorr).

Definitions for arboreal

adjective

  1. of or relating 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 of arboreal

1660-70; Latin arbore(us) of trees (arbor tree + -eus -eous) + -al1

Examples for arboreal

It lives on the ground, but all the other species of this singular genus are arboreal.

The mountain on which I stood was covered with trees woven into arboreal palaces.

What crime did our arboreal ancestors commit that we must so suffer and atone for it?

To be arboreal, the animal must sleep in trees or on a perch, but the chimpanzee cannot do so.

As was stated above, all arboreal gregarious birds have this habit.

Heredity again, for the snake was the worst enemy of arboreal man.

An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

They are gregarious, and most of them arboreal, though some are not so.

This arboreal device was not by any means a new one to the men of Massachusetts.

Most of them are terrestrial, some arboreal, and some aquatic.

Word Value for arboreal
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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