Word Meanings - ARBOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARBOR)

• Bower
• Shady recess
• arbor
• retreat
• alcove

Related words: (words related to ARBOR)

• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ARBORET
  A small tree or shrub. Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.
• ARBORICULTURAL
  Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ARBORICULTURIST
  One who cultivates trees.
• ARBOR DIANAE
  A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.
• ARBORICOLE
  Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• SHADY
  1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
• ARBOREOUS
  1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. 2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.
• ARBORATOR
  One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn.
• ARBOR
  A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.
• ARBORETUM
  A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
• ARBORIFORM
  Treelike in shape.
• ARBORIZATION
  The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.
• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• ALCOVE
  A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden
• ARBORICAL
  Relating to trees.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• CARBORUNDUM
  A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than