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English
Etymology
From Latin roboreus, from robur (“oak”).
Adjective
roboreous (comparative more roboreous, superlative most roboreous)
- (rare) Sturdy, robust, as an oak tree.
1854 June, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 20, page 327:A critic, if morbidly prone to carping, might object even to this reading on the ground that an unsophisticated Englishman, however tender hearted, if at all deficient in imagination might mistake the figurative allusion to the "fires" of affection, for a literal reference to those more roboreous fires of his corporeal existence, which are, proverbially, the combined product of vigorous digestion […]
1902, William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley, Regional Anatomy of the Head and Neck, page 51:In two cases coming under our observation, in the dissecting room, of where one upper jaw had been removed years previously, the elongated and tartar-invested teeth on the side of the mandible corresponding to the removed maxilla were in striking contrast to the roboreous, shining teeth of the opposite side.