Definition of "arboreal" []

• Relating to or resembling a tree. (adjective)
• Living in trees; arboreous: arboreal apes. (adjective)

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• "It's actually arboreal, which is quite extraordinary when you think about it."
• "Specialist organisms such as arboreal lichens, wood-rotting fungi, and mosses and invertebrates have declined with the decrease in large old trees, snags, and logs."
• "As opposed to, say, spiders or scorpions I guess you don't need binocular vision to pick those up... or some kind of arboreal predator like huge birds of prey or big cats."