arboreal.

Living in trees, or relating to trees and life among their branches.

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Words that belong together

• arboreal mammals
• arboreal habitat

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The arboreal mammals rarely descended to the ground.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.