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arboreal

Translation
arboreal
—arboreally, adv.
/ahr bawr"ee euhl, -bohr"-/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to trees; treelike.
2. Also, arboreous. living in or among trees.
3. Zool. adapted for living and moving about in trees, as the limbs and skeleton of opossums, squirrels, monkeys, and apes.
[1660-70; < L arbore(us) of trees (arbor tree + -eus -EOUS) + -AL1]

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