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sylviculture, silvi-|ˈsɪlvɪkʌltjʊə(r), -tʃə(r)|
[ad. F. sylvi-, silviculture, f. L. sylva, silva a wood + F. culture cultivation.]
The cultivation of woods or forests; the growing and tending of trees as a department of forestry.
1880Nature 5 Feb. 330/1 A recent instructive experiment in sylviculture. 1893M. G. Watkins in Academy 15 July 55/2 Sylviculture..means the culture of timber for profit, as opposed to arboriculture, or the growing of beautiful specimen trees in park and garden.
Hence sylviˈcultural a., belonging or relating to sylviculture (whence sylviˈculturally adv.); sylviˈculturist, a person engaged or skilled in sylviculture.
1889Nature 12 Dec. 122/2 *Sylvicultural systems—that is different methods under which the creation, regeneration, tending, and utilization of woods are effected. 1893Nisbet (title) British Forest Trees and their Sylvicultural Characteristics and Treatment. 1903Board Agric. Leaflet No. 91. 4 It is to the action of the beetle that the chief silvicultural damage is due.
1903Forestry Quart. Nov. 36 (Cent. Dict., Suppl.) *Silviculturally of interest is the note that in a spruce stand undergrown with beech no beetles were found, although a neighboring stand was greatly damaged.
1887Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 636 A French *sylviculturist has devised a method of clothing the stripped oak-trees.
Add: Also (rare) sylviˈculturalist n.
1971Nature 2 July 13/2 For silviculturalists outside Britain, there is also a world check list of adelgids. 1976Jrnl. Forest Hist. XX. 91 (heading) F. O. (‘Red’) Bateman: pioneer silviculturalist. |