Arboriculture
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The branch of horticulture concerned with the planting, growth, and maintenance of trees. uncountable, usually
"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being, who reminds one of the products of French arboriculture with its arabesque trees and shrubs, pyramids, wheels and wreaths; anything, except the forms which would be reached by the expression of her own inner qualities."
- 2 the tending of and caring for trees wordnet
Example
More examples"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being, who reminds one of the products of French arboriculture with its arabesque trees and shrubs, pyramids, wheels and wreaths; anything, except the forms which would be reached by the expression of her own inner qualities."
Etymology
From Latin arbor (“tree”) + cultūra (“tending”).
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