different between arboreal vs austral

English

Etymology

From Latin arboreus (“tree-like”) +? -al, mid-17th century.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???b??i.?l/
• Rhymes: -?????l

Adjective

arboreal

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a tree.
   • 1650, Walter Charleton (translator), “Of the Magnetick Cure of Wounds” in A Ternary of Paradoxes, by Jan Baptist van Helmont, London: William Lee, p. 72,^[1]

     High and sacred, in good troth, is the power of the microcosmical spirit, which without any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry:

   • 1919, T. S. Eliot, “Whispers of Immortality” in Selected Poems, Penguin, 1948,^[2]

     The sleek Brazilian jaguar

     Does not in its arboreal gloom

     Distil so rank a feline smell

     As Grishkin in a drawing-room.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, p. 282,^[3]

     In the mild breezes of the west and of the east lofty trees wave in different directions their first class foliage, the wafty sycamore, the Lebanonian cedar, the exalted planetree, the eugenic eucalyptus and other ornaments of the arboreal world with which that region is thoroughly well supplied.

   • 1979, William Styron, Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 37,^[4]

     Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue […] but here the arboreal green and the pollen-hazy light, the infrequent trucks and cars, the casual pace of the few strollers at the park’s border all created the effect of an outlying area in a modest Southern city […]

2. Living in or among trees.
   • 1872, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, London: Odhams Press, 6th edition, Chapter 7, p. 233,^[5]

     If the harvest mouse had been more strictly arboreal, it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order.

   • 1911, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, p. 222,^[6]

     MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

   • 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Book 3, p. 239,^[7]

     […] faced with this emergency, Tessie took Chapter Eleven and me up to the attic. Maybe it was a vestige of our arboreal past; we wanted to climb up and out of danger.

3. Covered or filled with trees.

   Synonym: arboreous

   • 1885, Richard Jefferies, “Forest” in The Open Air, London: Chatto and Windus, p. 188,^[8]

     The breadth of the arboreal landscape requires a longer list of living creatures, and creatures of greater bulk.

   • 1945, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover” in The Demon Lover and Other Stories, London: Jonathan Cape, p. 96,^[9]

     She married him, and the two of them settled down in this quiet, arboreal part of Kensington:

   • 1995, Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory, New York: Knopf, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 426,^[10]

     mountains, unlike the arboreal garden and the sacred stream, had gone unmentioned in the account of Creation given in Genesis

Related terms

• arbor
• arborescent
• arboreous
• arborous

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• boreal
• dendritic
• sylvan

Noun

arboreal (plural arboreals)

1. Any tree-dwelling creature.
   • 1971, Theo Lang, The difference between a man and a woman

     So, by learning to use their eyes to more and more advantage the arboreals added another treasure to the foundation of human intelligence.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin australis (“southern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st??l/, /???st??l/

Adjective

austral (comparative more austral, superlative most austral)

1. Of, relating to, or coming from the south.

   an austral migrant

Synonyms

• meridional
• southern

Antonyms

• boreal
• septentrional
• northern

Related terms

• Australian
• aurora australis
• oriental
• occidental

Translations

Etymology 2

From Spanish austral, from Latin australis.

Noun

austral (plural australs)

1. A former currency of Argentina.

Translations

See also

• occidental
• oriental

Anagrams

• Alturas

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin australis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /os.t?al/
• Homophones: australe, australes

Adjective

austral (feminine singular australe, masculine plural austraux, feminine plural australes)

1. austral

Antonyms

• boréal

Further reading

• “austral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin australis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a??s?t?a?l]
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

austral (not comparable)

1. austral

Declension

Antonyms

• boreal

Further reading

• “austral” in Duden online

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin austr?lis.

Adjective

austral m or f (plural austrais, comparable)

1. southern; austral (of, relating to, or coming from the south)

   Synonyms: meridional, sulista

Antonyms

• boreal, setentrional, nortenho

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish austral, from Latin austr?lis.

Noun

austral m (plural austrais)

1. austral (short-lived Argentinian currency)

Related terms

• austro

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French austral, Latin australis.

Adjective

austral m or n (feminine singular austral?, masculine plural australi, feminine and neuter plural australe)

1. southern, austral

Declension

Synonyms

• sudic, meridional

Antonyms

• boreal, nordic

Related terms

• austru

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ? (symbol)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin australis.

Adjective

austral (plural australes)

1. southern; austral (of, relating to, or coming from the south)

   Synonym: meridional

   Antonyms: boreal, septentrional, norteño

Derived terms

Noun

austral m (plural australes)

1. austral (short-lived Argentinian currency)

Further reading

• “austral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.