A.bearing trees, φάραγξ Theodor. ap. Ath.14.621b; “ἄρουρα” BGU328i17 (ii A. D.): Sup. “-ώτατος” Plu.Sull.12; ἡ δ. (sc. γῆ) Ph.2.583.
II. in pl., tree-bearers, a guild in the cult of Cybele, “μήτηρ δενδροφόρων” IGRom.1.614 (Tomi, iii A.D.); freq. in Lat. Inscrr., cf. Lyd.Mens.4.59.