arboreal

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Latin arboreus (“tree-like”) + -al, mid-17th century.

"This is a whiskered and colorless type, the latter characteristic pointing to the fact that he spends his days in arboreal seclusion. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
Nearly over the musician’s head swung a hammock from which hung a leg; other hammocks hanging in the semi-gloom called up suggestions of lemurs and arboreal bats. — The Blue Lagoon: A Romance, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

arborical, arborary, arborous

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