Definition of arboreal in English:

arboreal

adjective ɑːˈbɔːrɪəlɑrˈbɔriəl

1Living in trees.
arboreal rodents
栖于树上的啮齿目动物。
Example sentencesExamples
- However, a lot of people feel that an arboreal origin makes a lot more sense, and not all paleontologists are so quick to rule out the idea that birds could come from arboreal dinosaurs.
- Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces.
- They are mainly arboreal, preferring to stay in the trees and larger shrubs.
- Funds permitting, there are also plans to set up some structures atop the trees as the chimps are very much adapted to an arboreal life.
- The apes are almost totally arboreal; they live in the trees, travel through the trees, and eat fruit from the trees.
- The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent, which nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes.
- Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes.
- Within the ground beetle family, a few eat seeds, a few concentrate near water, and some readily climb trees and consume arboreal insects, including aphids and forest tent caterpillars.
- Sweet observed a male of the small arboreal species V. glauerti descend the home tree of one female and travel more than 300 yards in a straight line, through dense forest and rock outcrops, to the base of another tree.
- The Namai zone belongs to the birds, tall trees and arboreal mammals.
- Longrich said that his research ‘puts forward some of the strongest evidence yet that birds descended from arboreal parachuters and gliders, similar to modern flying squirrels.’
- Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed.
- Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees.
- Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
- Many small and some large tetrapods with no obvious arboreal features can get into trees.
- The authors remind us that no living primate has such hands and feet ‘for any purpose other than to meet the demands of full or part-time arboreal (tree dwelling) life.’
- For example, it is hypothesized that birds must have evolved flight from trees, so their ancestors must have been arboreal.
- It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat.
- The low number of contacts with the surrounding vegetation may be important in reducing the probability that smaller arboreal predators will access the nest tree.
- As most primates are arboreal and/or feed in trees, they require a high degree of balance and coordination and ethanol-impacted infants should fare poorly.
1. 1.1 Relating to trees.
  （与）树木（有关）的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Slim, arboreal columns and roof beams allude to the ficus trees that run along the western boundary of the site.
  This 300-year-old tree was a rare mutant, a sort of arboreal albino that had long been sacred to the native Haida community.
  Their many wild habitats include palm trees, tree holes, arboreal epiphytes, burrows, rock crevices, or other animal refuges.
  The arboreal habitats of anoles are composed primarily of short perches separated in space.
  The policy will help to better protect and develop the city's arboreal heritage, which includes more than 675,000 public trees.
  Mature forests with arboreal lichens are scarce except in national parks and nature.
  Now he shares his excitement for arboreal treasures through maps of tree trails he designs for public use.
  Set in a forest clearing, its arboreal form was inspired by the surrounding trees.
  Although this sojourn was not as artistically fruitful as the previous one, it did lead to the creation of a number of large pencil studies of trees that deepened Cotman's understanding of arboreal form.
  At first, small theropods such as Sinosauropteryx invaded arboreal habitats to elude predators.
  More than 800 people saw a pre-festival viewing of the one-hour documentary that showcases American history through the stories of 21 historic arboreal treasures.
  Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion.
  On the steep bluffs north of downtown Seattle grows an impressive array of what is arguably the Pacific Northwest's most beautiful arboreal treasures: the Pacific madrone.
  Grab your tree identification book and this ‘natural roadmap,’ and check out these arboreal monuments.
  The study involved estimating the longevity, or ages, of T. rex and other related North American tyrannosaur specimens by counting growth lines in their fossilized bones, just as one might count tree rings to estimate arboreal age.
  With nearly 1,100 species of indigenous trees, South Africa is extremely rich in arboreal diversity.
  This catalogue of arboreal treasures stands as a tribute to majestic specimens of nature that are the largest of their kind.
  Typically a city owns just 10 to 20 percent of the community's arboreal holdings; the rest are on private property.
  In France a chestnut-lined street in a town just west of Paris became known in the mid-nineteenth century for its arboreal restaurants.

Derivatives

arboreality

noun

Nominated in 1955, and king of its kind ever since, this Humboldt County, California, tree stood majestic and alone atop a grassy knoll, a paragon of arboreality.
Example sentencesExamples
- But both types of features were already present in larger non-avian theropods that neither climbed nor flew, and the claw and foot proportions of Archaeopteryx do not argue for arboreality any more than for grounddwelling.
- There is no persuasive evidence indicating arboreality in dromaeosaurs, although that negative evidence does not preclude arboreality altogether.
- We cannot rule out the possibility that a dromaeosaurid could climb a tree, but none of them show obvious modifications specifically for arboreality.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin arboreus, from arbor 'tree', + -al.

Rhymes

accessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, proprietorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial

Definition of arboreal in US English:

arboreal

adjectiveärˈbôrēəlɑrˈbɔriəl

1(chiefly of animals) living in trees.
（多指动物）栖于树上的
arboreal rodents
栖于树上的啮齿目动物。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet.
- They are mainly arboreal, preferring to stay in the trees and larger shrubs.
- Sweet observed a male of the small arboreal species V. glauerti descend the home tree of one female and travel more than 300 yards in a straight line, through dense forest and rock outcrops, to the base of another tree.
- Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed.
- However, a lot of people feel that an arboreal origin makes a lot more sense, and not all paleontologists are so quick to rule out the idea that birds could come from arboreal dinosaurs.
- Many small and some large tetrapods with no obvious arboreal features can get into trees.
- For example, it is hypothesized that birds must have evolved flight from trees, so their ancestors must have been arboreal.
- The Namai zone belongs to the birds, tall trees and arboreal mammals.
- Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees.
- As most primates are arboreal and/or feed in trees, they require a high degree of balance and coordination and ethanol-impacted infants should fare poorly.
- Longrich said that his research ‘puts forward some of the strongest evidence yet that birds descended from arboreal parachuters and gliders, similar to modern flying squirrels.’
- The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent, which nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes.
- The apes are almost totally arboreal; they live in the trees, travel through the trees, and eat fruit from the trees.
- Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes.
- Within the ground beetle family, a few eat seeds, a few concentrate near water, and some readily climb trees and consume arboreal insects, including aphids and forest tent caterpillars.
- The authors remind us that no living primate has such hands and feet ‘for any purpose other than to meet the demands of full or part-time arboreal (tree dwelling) life.’
- Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces.
- It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat.
- Funds permitting, there are also plans to set up some structures atop the trees as the chimps are very much adapted to an arboreal life.
- The low number of contacts with the surrounding vegetation may be important in reducing the probability that smaller arboreal predators will access the nest tree.
1. 1.1 Relating to trees.
  （与）树木（有关）的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Slim, arboreal columns and roof beams allude to the ficus trees that run along the western boundary of the site.
  On the steep bluffs north of downtown Seattle grows an impressive array of what is arguably the Pacific Northwest's most beautiful arboreal treasures: the Pacific madrone.
  In France a chestnut-lined street in a town just west of Paris became known in the mid-nineteenth century for its arboreal restaurants.
  The study involved estimating the longevity, or ages, of T. rex and other related North American tyrannosaur specimens by counting growth lines in their fossilized bones, just as one might count tree rings to estimate arboreal age.
  The arboreal habitats of anoles are composed primarily of short perches separated in space.
  Set in a forest clearing, its arboreal form was inspired by the surrounding trees.
  Although this sojourn was not as artistically fruitful as the previous one, it did lead to the creation of a number of large pencil studies of trees that deepened Cotman's understanding of arboreal form.
  With nearly 1,100 species of indigenous trees, South Africa is extremely rich in arboreal diversity.
  Mature forests with arboreal lichens are scarce except in national parks and nature.
  More than 800 people saw a pre-festival viewing of the one-hour documentary that showcases American history through the stories of 21 historic arboreal treasures.
  The policy will help to better protect and develop the city's arboreal heritage, which includes more than 675,000 public trees.
  This catalogue of arboreal treasures stands as a tribute to majestic specimens of nature that are the largest of their kind.
  At first, small theropods such as Sinosauropteryx invaded arboreal habitats to elude predators.
  Now he shares his excitement for arboreal treasures through maps of tree trails he designs for public use.
  Typically a city owns just 10 to 20 percent of the community's arboreal holdings; the rest are on private property.
  Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion.
  Grab your tree identification book and this ‘natural roadmap,’ and check out these arboreal monuments.
  Their many wild habitats include palm trees, tree holes, arboreal epiphytes, burrows, rock crevices, or other animal refuges.
  This 300-year-old tree was a rare mutant, a sort of arboreal albino that had long been sacred to the native Haida community.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin arboreus, from arbor ‘tree’, + -al.

词汇	arboreal
释义	Definition of arboreal in English: arboreal adjective ɑːˈbɔːrɪəlɑrˈbɔriəl 1Living in trees. arboreal rodents 栖于树上的啮齿目动物。 Example sentencesExamples However, a lot of people feel that an arboreal origin makes a lot more sense, and not all paleontologists are so quick to rule out the idea that birds could come from arboreal dinosaurs. Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces. They are mainly arboreal, preferring to stay in the trees and larger shrubs. Funds permitting, there are also plans to set up some structures atop the trees as the chimps are very much adapted to an arboreal life. The apes are almost totally arboreal; they live in the trees, travel through the trees, and eat fruit from the trees. The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent, which nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes. Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes. Within the ground beetle family, a few eat seeds, a few concentrate near water, and some readily climb trees and consume arboreal insects, including aphids and forest tent caterpillars. Sweet observed a male of the small arboreal species V. glauerti descend the home tree of one female and travel more than 300 yards in a straight line, through dense forest and rock outcrops, to the base of another tree. The Namai zone belongs to the birds, tall trees and arboreal mammals. Longrich said that his research ‘puts forward some of the strongest evidence yet that birds descended from arboreal parachuters and gliders, similar to modern flying squirrels.’ Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed. Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees. Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet. Many small and some large tetrapods with no obvious arboreal features can get into trees. The authors remind us that no living primate has such hands and feet ‘for any purpose other than to meet the demands of full or part-time arboreal (tree dwelling) life.’ For example, it is hypothesized that birds must have evolved flight from trees, so their ancestors must have been arboreal. It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat. The low number of contacts with the surrounding vegetation may be important in reducing the probability that smaller arboreal predators will access the nest tree. As most primates are arboreal and/or feed in trees, they require a high degree of balance and coordination and ethanol-impacted infants should fare poorly. 1.1 Relating to trees. （与）树木（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Slim, arboreal columns and roof beams allude to the ficus trees that run along the western boundary of the site. This 300-year-old tree was a rare mutant, a sort of arboreal albino that had long been sacred to the native Haida community. Their many wild habitats include palm trees, tree holes, arboreal epiphytes, burrows, rock crevices, or other animal refuges. The arboreal habitats of anoles are composed primarily of short perches separated in space. The policy will help to better protect and develop the city's arboreal heritage, which includes more than 675,000 public trees. Mature forests with arboreal lichens are scarce except in national parks and nature. Now he shares his excitement for arboreal treasures through maps of tree trails he designs for public use. Set in a forest clearing, its arboreal form was inspired by the surrounding trees. Although this sojourn was not as artistically fruitful as the previous one, it did lead to the creation of a number of large pencil studies of trees that deepened Cotman's understanding of arboreal form. At first, small theropods such as Sinosauropteryx invaded arboreal habitats to elude predators. More than 800 people saw a pre-festival viewing of the one-hour documentary that showcases American history through the stories of 21 historic arboreal treasures. Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion. On the steep bluffs north of downtown Seattle grows an impressive array of what is arguably the Pacific Northwest's most beautiful arboreal treasures: the Pacific madrone. Grab your tree identification book and this ‘natural roadmap,’ and check out these arboreal monuments. The study involved estimating the longevity, or ages, of T. rex and other related North American tyrannosaur specimens by counting growth lines in their fossilized bones, just as one might count tree rings to estimate arboreal age. With nearly 1,100 species of indigenous trees, South Africa is extremely rich in arboreal diversity. This catalogue of arboreal treasures stands as a tribute to majestic specimens of nature that are the largest of their kind. Typically a city owns just 10 to 20 percent of the community's arboreal holdings; the rest are on private property. In France a chestnut-lined street in a town just west of Paris became known in the mid-nineteenth century for its arboreal restaurants. Derivatives arboreality noun Nominated in 1955, and king of its kind ever since, this Humboldt County, California, tree stood majestic and alone atop a grassy knoll, a paragon of arboreality. Example sentencesExamples But both types of features were already present in larger non-avian theropods that neither climbed nor flew, and the claw and foot proportions of Archaeopteryx do not argue for arboreality any more than for grounddwelling. There is no persuasive evidence indicating arboreality in dromaeosaurs, although that negative evidence does not preclude arboreality altogether. We cannot rule out the possibility that a dromaeosaurid could climb a tree, but none of them show obvious modifications specifically for arboreality. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin arboreus, from arbor 'tree', + -al. Rhymes accessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, proprietorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial Definition of arboreal in US English: arboreal adjectiveärˈbôrēəlɑrˈbɔriəl 1(chiefly of animals) living in trees. （多指动物）栖于树上的 arboreal rodents 栖于树上的啮齿目动物。 Example sentencesExamples Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes (like thumbs) on their hind feet. They are mainly arboreal, preferring to stay in the trees and larger shrubs. Sweet observed a male of the small arboreal species V. glauerti descend the home tree of one female and travel more than 300 yards in a straight line, through dense forest and rock outcrops, to the base of another tree. Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed. However, a lot of people feel that an arboreal origin makes a lot more sense, and not all paleontologists are so quick to rule out the idea that birds could come from arboreal dinosaurs. Many small and some large tetrapods with no obvious arboreal features can get into trees. For example, it is hypothesized that birds must have evolved flight from trees, so their ancestors must have been arboreal. The Namai zone belongs to the birds, tall trees and arboreal mammals. Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees. As most primates are arboreal and/or feed in trees, they require a high degree of balance and coordination and ethanol-impacted infants should fare poorly. Longrich said that his research ‘puts forward some of the strongest evidence yet that birds descended from arboreal parachuters and gliders, similar to modern flying squirrels.’ The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent, which nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes. The apes are almost totally arboreal; they live in the trees, travel through the trees, and eat fruit from the trees. Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes. Within the ground beetle family, a few eat seeds, a few concentrate near water, and some readily climb trees and consume arboreal insects, including aphids and forest tent caterpillars. The authors remind us that no living primate has such hands and feet ‘for any purpose other than to meet the demands of full or part-time arboreal (tree dwelling) life.’ Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces. It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat. Funds permitting, there are also plans to set up some structures atop the trees as the chimps are very much adapted to an arboreal life. The low number of contacts with the surrounding vegetation may be important in reducing the probability that smaller arboreal predators will access the nest tree. 1.1 Relating to trees. （与）树木（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Slim, arboreal columns and roof beams allude to the ficus trees that run along the western boundary of the site. On the steep bluffs north of downtown Seattle grows an impressive array of what is arguably the Pacific Northwest's most beautiful arboreal treasures: the Pacific madrone. In France a chestnut-lined street in a town just west of Paris became known in the mid-nineteenth century for its arboreal restaurants. The study involved estimating the longevity, or ages, of T. rex and other related North American tyrannosaur specimens by counting growth lines in their fossilized bones, just as one might count tree rings to estimate arboreal age. The arboreal habitats of anoles are composed primarily of short perches separated in space. Set in a forest clearing, its arboreal form was inspired by the surrounding trees. Although this sojourn was not as artistically fruitful as the previous one, it did lead to the creation of a number of large pencil studies of trees that deepened Cotman's understanding of arboreal form. With nearly 1,100 species of indigenous trees, South Africa is extremely rich in arboreal diversity. Mature forests with arboreal lichens are scarce except in national parks and nature. More than 800 people saw a pre-festival viewing of the one-hour documentary that showcases American history through the stories of 21 historic arboreal treasures. The policy will help to better protect and develop the city's arboreal heritage, which includes more than 675,000 public trees. This catalogue of arboreal treasures stands as a tribute to majestic specimens of nature that are the largest of their kind. At first, small theropods such as Sinosauropteryx invaded arboreal habitats to elude predators. Now he shares his excitement for arboreal treasures through maps of tree trails he designs for public use. Typically a city owns just 10 to 20 percent of the community's arboreal holdings; the rest are on private property. Movement in arboreal and terrestrial environments presents very different functional challenges for locomotion. Grab your tree identification book and this ‘natural roadmap,’ and check out these arboreal monuments. Their many wild habitats include palm trees, tree holes, arboreal epiphytes, burrows, rock crevices, or other animal refuges. This 300-year-old tree was a rare mutant, a sort of arboreal albino that had long been sacred to the native Haida community. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin arboreus, from arbor ‘tree’, + -al.
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