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arbor

[ UK /ˈɑːbɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɑɹbɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. tree (as opposed to shrub)
  2. any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
  3. a framework that supports climbing plants
    the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park

How To Use arbor In A Sentence

  • He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
  • About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
  • No, it's like "And she knew it arbored great things. Glimpse Inside A Writer's Brain
  • The seas roiled , tossing the ships in the harbor about like toys in a rain barrel.
  • He had taken a hard line about any country that harbored terrorists, and by his definition Saddam was a terrorist. Plan of Attack
  • They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Harbor seals have muscles rich in myoglobin, an oxygen carrying molecule.
  • Further subdivision of the second category is based on the width of the primary branches, which decreases distally only slightly in C. arboreus, but markedly in C. concentricus.
  • If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
  • Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
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