arboral
English
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editarboral
- 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
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editarboral
- Misspelling of aboral.