arborous

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arborous (not comparable)

  1. Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.
    an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 137-139:
      […] from under shadie arborous roof,
      Soon as they forth were come to open sight
      Of day-spring,
    • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dedication to the Reverend George Coleridge” in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle, 2nd edition, pp. x-xi,
      […] the Tree […] whose old boughs,
      That hang above us in an arborous roof,
      Stirr’d by the faint gale of departing May
      Send their loose blossoms slanting o’er our heads!
    • 1825, John Galt, chapter 4, in The Omen‎, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Epoch 4, page 144:
      […] they had no sense of their condition; they were happy in a flowery, an arborous Sicilian garden: the volcano was below, and the giant earthquake only asleep.
    • 2000, Amit Chaudhuri, A New World‎, London: Picador, pages 67–68:
      The thought of his other son […] married […] for four years and living in the arborous suburb, Vasant Vihar, in Delhi, disturbed him only remotely,

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