arboreal

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ar=bor=e=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

arboreal, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees.  Cowley.  [1913 Webster]
•  Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals.  [1913 Webster]

  "Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

arboreal, adj. of, living in, or connected with trees.

Etymology

L arboreus f. arbor tree

THESAURUS

arboreal

V-shaped, Y-shaped, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, branchlike, bushlike, bushy, citrous, coniferous, crotched, deciduous, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, evergreen, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, hardwood, nondeciduous, piny, pronged, ramous, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, shrubby, shrublike, softwood, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated