arboral

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English

Etymology 1

Adjective

arboral

  1. arboreal; relating to trees
    • 1870, The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser:
      They are among the first trees to bloom in spring, [] and all are well deserving a place in every arboral adornment.
    • 1871, Thomas Meehan, Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, volume 13, page 72:
      The tree will then become [] an ornamental arboral giant.
    • 1882, Francis George Heath, Forestry: A Journal of Forest and Estate Management, page 358:
      [] the state of its arboral districts almost justified the epigrammatic criticism of Dr. Samuel Johnson, on Scottish scenery, that it rarely (in 1773) presented to the eye of the traveller a tree older than himself, and he was born in 1709.

Etymology 2

Adjective

arboral

  1. Misspelling of aboral.