dendrologyn.
/dɛnˈdrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /dɛnˈdrɑlədʒi/ The study of trees; the department of botany which treats of trees.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > study of specific parts or types of plants > trees
dendrology1708
silvics1907
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Dendrology, a Treatise, or Discourse of Trees.
1869 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (1878) 344 There is a school of Dendrology here.
Derivatives
dendroˈlogic adj. = dendrologous adj.
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the world > plants > botany > [adjective] > specific parts or types of plants > trees
dendrologic1825
dendrological1884
1825 P. W. Watson Dendrol. Brit. Introd. 1 That no person..since the time of Evelyn..should have taken up..the Dendrologic Department of the science.
dendroˈlogical adj. = dendrologous adj.
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the world > plants > botany > [adjective] > specific parts or types of plants > trees
dendrologic1825
dendrological1884
1884 Science 4 July 10 Dendrological science has met with a great..loss in the death of Alphonse Lavallée.
denˈdrologist n. one versed in dendrology, a professed student of trees.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > study of specific parts or types of plants > trees > one who
dendrologist1825
arborist1883
1825 P. W. Watson Dendrol. Brit. Introd. 10 This..work..includes about 100 Trees and Shrubs for the Dendrologist, indigenous to the British Isles.
1875 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 137 The sonnet is..‘susceptible of a high polish’, as the dendrologists say of the woods of certain trees.
denˈdrologous adj. belonging to dendrology.
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