dendrology
noun
the branch of botany dealing with trees and shrubs.
dendrological
-
a word derived from
dendrology.
Example Sentences
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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
"Only a merry dance, my liege, in which a man will appear in a dendrological foliage of fronds," replied the baronet.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
