arboreal

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adj性質(zhì)的同根詞
arboraceous：長滿樹木的；樹木狀的。
arboreous：樹木的；樹木繁茂的；樹木狀的。
arborescent：樹木狀的。
arborous：樹木茂盛的；樹木的（等於arboreous）。
n性質(zhì)的同根詞
arboretum：植物園；（供科研等的）樹木園。
arboriculture：樹木的培植/栽培。
arboriculturist：樹木培植家。
arborist：樹木栽培家；樹木研究者；樹藝家。

The frogs' lifestyle is so thoroughly arboreal that, instead of laying eggs in water, the frogs deposit their eggs in trees.
這種青蛙擁有徹底的樹棲生活方式，一般的蛙類在水中産卵，它連産卵也在樹上；
Some 100m hectares of America's forests went in the 19th century, in an arboreal slaughter similarly reinforced by a belief in the godliness of thus “improving” the land.
19世紀(jì)，美國在一次“樹木大砍伐”中就損失了約1億公頃林地。同樣的，對神的信仰，認(rèn)爲(wèi)這樣做可以“改善”土地，因而更加鞏固了這一做法。
Indeed, the trait is so useful for arboreal life that it is used by many avian palaeontologists to decide whether newly excavated species of fossil birds lived in trees or on the ground.
的確，對於樹棲生物這一特點(diǎn)是相儅有用的，而許多鳥類古生物學(xué)家也利用這一特點(diǎn)來確定新挖掘出的鳥類化石是棲息在樹上還是生活在地麪上。

Recently, one story on the Featured Creature website described the arboreal alligator lizard.

In one, cover was created with eucalyptus branches and light levels were kept low, mimicking an arboreal habitat.
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Selection on an arboreal ape population will be impotent if variations which improve their terrestrial prospects are sparse.
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Lofty mission statements aside, the principal commercial goals of arboreal genome research are faster growth and more useful wood.
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