Silvology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The scientific study of forests. uncountable

Etymology

From silva + -o- + -logy. From Latin silva (“forest”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “study of”). Coined by Roeloff Oldeman in 1990 in his book Forests: elements of silvology.

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