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dendrology|dɛnˈdrɒlədʒɪ|
[f. dendro- + Gr. -λογια discourse, -logy.]
The study of trees; the department of botany which treats of trees. So dendroˈlogic, dendroˈlogical, denˈdrologous adjs., belonging to dendrology; denˈdrologist, one versed in dendrology, a professed student of trees.
1708Kersey, Dendrology, a Treatise, or Discourse of Trees. 1825P. W. Watson Dendrol. Brit. Introd. 1 That no person..since the time of Evelyn..should have taken up..the Dendrologic Department of the science. Ibid. Introd. 10 This..work..includes about 100 Trees and Shrubs for the Dendrologist, indigenous to the British Isles. 1869W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (1878) 344 There is a school of Dendrology here. 1875Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 137 The sonnet is..‘susceptible of a high polish’, as the dendrologists say of the woods of certain trees. 1884Science 4 July 10 Dendrological science has met with a great..loss in the death of Alphonse Lavallée. |