arboret

English

Noun

arboret (plural arborets)

  1. (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found [...].
  2. (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour

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arboret

Etymology

From Latin arborētum.

Noun

arboret n

  1. stand (forestry: contiguous group)
  2. brush (vegetation)
  3. upper part of a mast

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Last modified on 5 January 2012, at 19:47