Roboreous

Origin

From Latin roboreus, from robur ("oak").

Full definition of roboreous

Adjective

1. (rare) Sturdy, robust, as an oak tree.
• June 1854, A critic, if morbidly prone to carping, might object even to this reading on the ground that an unsophisticated Englishman, however tender hearted, if at all deficient in imagination might mistake the figurative allusion to the "fires" of affection, for a literal reference to those more roboreous fires of his corporeal existence, which are, proverbially, the combined product of vigorous digestion ...
• 1901, The Journal of Commercial Education - Volume 18, Isogogically we would announce our roboreous proclivities for linguistic exungulation.
• 1902, William Thomas Eckley & ‎Corinne Buford Eckley, Regional Anatomy of the Head and Neck, In two cases coming under our observation, in the dissecting room, of where one upper jaw had been removed years previously, the elongated and tartar-invested teeth on the side of the mandible corresponding to the removed maxilla were in striking contrast to the roboreous, shining teeth of the opposite side.