arboreous

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The more obvious explanation, though, is the one exemplified by the terrifying arboreous formation currently looming in the White House’s East Colonnade: Melania is just plain bad at this.

From Washington Post

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss.

From Project Gutenberg

It is only in the torrid zone that one sees these lavish developments of verdure, these labyrinths of charming arboreous effect.

From Project Gutenberg

The rafts thus formed in time became consolidated by the deposition of earthy materials, leaves, twigs and vegetable matter, and are covered with a rank growth of vegetation, at first shrubby, but at last arboreous.

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Think of the surroundings here—innocent twittering birds, silent arboreous trees, clear pellucid streams, nothing to tempt, nothing to degrade.”

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