arboreous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ɑɹˈbɚ.iəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant)
    — 1684, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture” in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearne, pp. 28-29, For the Parable may not […] imply any or every grain of Mustard, but point at such a grain as from its fertile spirit, and other concurrent advantages, hath the success to become arboreous, shoot into such a magnitude, and acquire the like tallness.
  2. Covered or filled with trees.
    — But among Authours, we meet with nothing more frequent, and indeed more celebrated, than those Arboreous amenities and Plantations of Woods, which they call’d Luci;
  3. Growing on trees. obsolete
    — And those fruites whiche Galene calleth arboreous, are those growing vppon trees.
  4. Having a tree-like, branching structure. obsolete
    — The arboreous ramification of the Meditallium of the Cerebellum appearing, being cut right downwards.

词汇关系

相关词
arboreal arborous

词源

From Latin arbor (“tree”).
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