silviculture
English
editEtymology
editFrom silva + -i- + culture. From Latin silva (“forest”) + cultūra (“cultivation”).
Noun
editsilviculture (countable and uncountable, plural silvicultures)
- The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit; forestry.
- 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 598:
- Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editforestry
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