arboriculture
noun
the cultivation of trees and shrubs.
arboriculturist
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a word derived from
arboriculture.
Example Sentences
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"Whilst some work has been carried out with support from an independent arboriculturist, we will be proposing a comprehensive planting scheme to mitigate the initial loss of any existing vegetation," the company said.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2021
The author’s training as a forester and his experience as a professional arboriculturist has peculiarly fitted him to speak in an authoritative and interesting way about trees and woods.
From Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison
But he was not only the greatest arboriculturist in the world, but the founder of tree-farming as a productive industry as well as a decorative art.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
Another work, however, he does mention, evidently that of a practical horticulturist and arboriculturist, probably belonging to a lower status of society than himself.
From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet
Though the arboriculturist still treats them as distinct species, they are scientifically regarded as geographical forms of one species.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Edward Step
