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arboreous

adjective as in wooded

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Among nearly 60 selected works are his hanging scroll landscape paintings, depicting mountainous and arboreous terrain.

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.

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

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

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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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