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arbor



tree
tree


Definitions

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arbor
     1. n. a tree
           felix arbor - a fruit-bearing tree
           arbores serere - to plant trees
           (specifically with the genitive of the species)     arbor alni - an alder tree
           arbores ficorum - fig trees
     2. n. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood
           arbore mali - the mast (of a ship)
           centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens - an oar
           Pelias arbor - Pelias's ship, the ship Argo
           - the shaft of a javelin, a javelin
           - the lever or bar of a press, press-beam
           arbor infelix - a gallows, gibbet
     3. n. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)
     4. n. singular vocative of arbor

Example Sentences

Haec arbor plus quam centum annos habet.
    This tree is more than a century old.



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