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The dendrological sleight of hand was the subject of extensive discussion over the summer as Europeans considered a proposal to eliminate forest wood as an acceptable source of sustainable biomass.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

No dendrological study has been conducted but mature trees are often thousands of years old, earning them the title of "living fossils".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2018

He also created a zoo and an enormous dendrological park, irrigated through deep artesian springs in the middle of the arid landscape, which earned Askania-Nova the nickname “oasis on the steppes.”

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2015

The tree which most occupied their dendrological talk was the stately American elm, which a blight has begun to attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Arnold Arboretum in Boston is the great dendrological Noah's Ark in this country.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen