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arboriculture

[ahr-ber-i-kuhl-cher, ahr-bawr-, -bohr-] / ˈɑr bər ɪˌkʌl tʃər, ɑrˈbɔr-, -ˈboʊr- /




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"Wrexham recognised an urgent necessity to increase our urban canopy cover back in 2014," said Jon Brewin, an arboriculture officer at the council.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

Catherine Nuttgens, an arboriculture specialist who led the judging, said: "The destruction of the Sycamore Gap felt so utterly senseless, but this trees of hope initiative has kept that sense of joy alive."

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

So you could say Jude and I are happily engaged in agriculture or arboriculture, or something like that.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2017

I have never met with the verb in that sense elsewhere, but overtop is evermore the appropriate term in arboriculture.

From Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

I do wish that man had taken a course in arboriculture before he planted those trees.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson




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