arboreal

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adj性质的同根词
arboraceous：长满树木的；树木状的。
arboreous：树木的；树木繁茂的；树木状的。
arborescent：树木状的。
arborous：树木茂盛的；树木的（等于arboreous）。
n性质的同根词
arboretum：植物园；（供科研等的）树木园。
arboriculture：树木的培植/栽培。
arboriculturist：树木培植家。
arborist：树木栽培家；树木研究者；树艺家。

The frogs' lifestyle is so thoroughly arboreal that, instead of laying eggs in water, the frogs deposit their eggs in trees.
这种青蛙拥有彻底的树栖生活方式，一般的蛙类在水中产卵，它连产卵也在树上；
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世纪，美国在一次“树木大砍伐”中就损失了约1亿公顷林地。同样的，对神的信仰，认为这样做可以“改善”土地，因而更加巩固了这一做法。
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.
的确，对于树栖生物这一特点是相当有用的，而许多鸟类古生物学家也利用这一特点来确定新挖掘出的鸟类化石是栖息在树上还是生活在地面上。

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.
ECONOMIST: GM trees are on their way