Arbor day
a day, varying in date but always in the spring, observed in certain states of the U.S. by the planting of trees.
the day set aside for the planting of trees, first celebrated 1872 in Nebraska, the brainchild of U.S. agriculturalist and journalist J. Sterling Morton (1832-1902). From Latin arbor “tree,” of unknown origin.
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any of several ornamental or timber-producing evergreen trees belonging to the genus Thuja, of the cypress family, native to North America and eastern Asia, having a scaly bark and scalelike leaves on branchlets. Anatomy, .
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adjective (literary) resembling a tree wooded
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of or relating to trees; treelike. Also, arboreous. living in or among trees. Zoology. adapted for living and moving about in trees, as the limbs and skeleton of opossums, squirrels, monkeys, and apes. Historical Examples But such a conception leaves unexplained the great differences between monkeys and gibbons in arboreal and terrestrial activity. The Outline […]
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furnished with an . lined with trees; shaded. Historical Examples It was after this that we stumbled on the arbored bungalow, and bought it in fifteen minutes. The Smiling Hill-Top Julia M. Sloane One had to stoop to enter that arbored, leaf encircled nest through which the sun fell like a dappled pattern on the […]