Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The planting and care of woody plants, especially trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cultivation of trees; the art of planting, training, pruning, and cultivating trees and shrubs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The branch of
horticulture concerned with the planting and growth oftrees
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cultivation of tree for the production of timber
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Examples
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There survives a book on arboriculture which is not an isolated monograph, but portion of a larger work, at least three books long, for it alludes to a 'primum volumen de cultu agrorum' (ad init.).
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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"arboriculture," the company aims to integrate each design into the surroundings.
Forbes.com: News David Hochman 2010
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"arboriculture," the company aims to integrate each design into the surroundings.
Forbes.com: News David Hochman 2010
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David John Williams, for serv forestry, arboriculture and to the community in Powys.
New Year honours list: Order of the British Empire, Member (MBE) 2010
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It's the equivalent of a course in arboriculture for the amateur gardener and landscape professional, including the history and culture of trees, suggesting the climates where you might find them growing.
Books to inspire endeavors in landscape design, gardening Joel M. Lerner 2010
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Well, the father of the builder was the Rev. William Hanbury, a man of great means whose twin passions of music and arboriculture led to a two day fundraising festival here in 1759.
The Langton Messiah Peter Ashley 2008
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Using a technique called arboriculture, the company aims to integrate each design into the surroundings.
World's Unusual Treehouses David Hochman 2010
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"Homeowners and some people in the landscape profession who want to branch off into arboriculture," he explained.
Upstate Chainsaw Masterer Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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From the description: "Hands-on course teaches the skills and techniques necessary to access the upper parts of large trees; safety when working in and around large trees; and the proper selection, use, and maintenance of equipment used in the arboriculture profession."
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The Author has been flattered by the assurance, that this naive mode of recommending arboriculture (which was actually delivered in these very words by a Highland laird, while on his death-bed, to his son) had so much weight with a Scottish earl as to lead to his planting
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