arboriculture
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of arboriculture
First recorded in 1820–30; arbor 3 + (agr)iculture
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"Wrexham recognised an urgent necessity to increase our urban canopy cover back in 2014," said Jon Brewin, an arboriculture officer at the council.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Catherine Nuttgens, an arboriculture specialist who led the judging, said: "The destruction of the Sycamore Gap felt so utterly senseless, but this trees of hope initiative has kept that sense of joy alive."
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
So you could say Jude and I are happily engaged in agriculture or arboriculture, or something like that.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2017
In England, however, arboriculture, the planting and nursing of single trees, has, until recently, been better understood than sylviculture, the sowing and training of the forest.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
Matter less important than the manner, 77 —— and mind, inseparable, 371 Matthew, Mr. Patrick, his work on naval timber and arboriculture, 64, 65 —— extracts from, 315, &c.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
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