arboreous

a. 树木繁茂的, 树木的, 树木状的

发音

US /ɑɹˈbɚ.iəs/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 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.

    1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Out of Time’s Abyss in The Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hastings, UK: Delphi Classics, 2014, Chapter 1, dense forests of eucalyptus and acacia and giant arboreous ferns with feathered fronds waving gently a hundred feet above their heads

  2. 2.

    Covered or filled with trees.

  3. 3.

    Growing on trees.

    废旧
  4. 4.

    Having a tree-like, branching structure.

    废旧 医学

    1698, William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Oxford: S. Smith and B. Walford, Table 56, […] [the] Internal Concave Surface [of the Placenta Uterina] next the Amnios, Appears Cover’d with the Chorion; under which the Arboreous Disposition of its Blood-Vessels are elegantly Exprest.

词汇关系

词源

From Latin arbor (“tree”).

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