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adj. - Inhabiting or frequenting woody plants.

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Usage examples (10)
  • Though my Shahi are pretty much tree-living elves, I still think of them as human, only with pointy ears.
  • The primates began as arboreal (tree-living) creatures, and all but some of the larger specimens still are.
  • The kingdoms maintained the roads that linked the empire, if their people were capable of it, which (for instance) the tree-living Hanging People were not.
  • These characters were shown to be typical of arboreal Vertebrates, and their occurrence in forms not arboreal indicated that these were descended from tree-living ancestors.
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