arborous

English

Alternative forms

• arbourous (obsolete)

Adjective

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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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,^[1]

     […] 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^[2], 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^[3], 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,

See also

• arboreal
• arboreous