tree-living

1. 1.

   inhabiting or frequenting trees

   “arboreal apes”

   Synonymsarborealarboreous

Questions about tree-living

What does tree-living mean?

tree-living means "inhabiting or frequenting trees".

How many syllables are in tree-living?

tree-living has 3 syllables: tree--li-ving. The stress falls on "tree-".

What is another word for tree-living?

Close synonyms include arboreal, arboreous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tree-living a common word?

tree-living is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.