arboreal

Example Sentences

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Standing on a lot redolent of fresh-cut poplar and littered with arboreal debris — tree chunks as large as small cars that were once a 108-foot-tall living organism — Zumot said the choice was easy.

From Washington Post

The movements that follow are arboreal portraits in music: a puckish, dancing duet for the bassoon and a violin; a mysterious nocturne; curlicue phrases choked into fragments; and patient brooding.

From New York Times

Representing the next season’s needles, cones and shoots, buds form during the late summer and early fall, when decreasing day length and temperatures set the tree on its path to an arboreal equivalent of hibernation.

From Seattle Times

She says crossings should be specifically designed for both small and large terrestrial animals as well as arboreal ones, and integrated with fencing of the train tracks.

From Science Magazine

Surrounded by the park’s lush greenery the lifeless trees made for a starkly majestic cautionary tableau, an arboreal “Burghers of Calais.”

From New York Times