a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.]

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  1.  Abounding in trees, wooded.

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1664.  Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 604. Those arboreous amenities and plantation of woods.

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1854.  H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 166. That arboreous condition of our country.

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  2.  = ARBOREAL.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 98. They surely speake probably who make it [i.e., misseltoe] an arboreous excrescence.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., The Arboreous bird, by which he means, the barnacle.

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1833.  Blackw. Mag., XXXIV. 280. Their [Cigalas’] arboreous disposition.

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  3.  = ARBORESCENT.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., An Arboreous cloud … a cloudy meteor resembling the appearance of a tree.

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1772.  Forster, in Phil. Trans., LXII. 53. The plant … is arboreous, with small leaves.

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1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., vi. (1858), 76. Leaflets ovate. Stem arboreous.

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