sylviculturesilviculturen.
/ˈsɪlvᵻˌkʌltjʊə/, /ˈsɪlvᵻˌkʌltʃə/, U.S. /ˈsɪlvəˌkəltʃər/ The cultivation of woods or forests; the growing and tending of trees as a department of forestry.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun]
woodwork1738
arboriculture1828
forestry1859
woodworking1872
sylviculture1880
silvics1907
agroforestry1934
tree farm1941
tree farming1942
1880 Nature 5 Feb. 330/1 A recent instructive experiment in sylviculture.
1893 M. 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.
Derivatives
sylviˈcultural adj. belonging or relating to sylviculture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adjective]
arboricultural1828
sylvicultural1889
silvical1909
1889 Nature 12 Dec. 122/2 Sylvicultural systems—that is different methods under which the creation, regeneration, tending, and utilization of woods are effected.
1893 Nisbet (title) British Forest Trees and their Sylvicultural Characteristics and Treatment.
1903 Board Agric. Leaflet No. 91. 4 It is to the action of the beetle that the chief silvicultural damage is due.
sylviˈculturally adv.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adverb]
sylviculturally1903
1903 Forestry 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.
sylviˈculturist n. a person engaged or skilled in sylviculture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > forester
woodyera1100
forester1297
fosterc1405
fostress?1553
sylvan1589
saltuary1674
woodsman1694
green jerkin1826
wood-farmer1831
sylviculturist1887
tree farmer1942
sylviculturalist1971
1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 636 A French sylviculturist has devised a method of clothing the stripped oak-trees.
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sylviˈculturalist n. rare
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > forester
woodyera1100
forester1297
fosterc1405
fostress?1553
sylvan1589
saltuary1674
woodsman1694
green jerkin1826
wood-farmer1831
sylviculturist1887
tree farmer1942
sylviculturalist1971
1971 Nature 2 July 13/2 For silviculturalists outside Britain, there is also a world check list of adelgids.
1976 Jrnl. Forest Hist. 20 91 (heading) F. O. (‘Red’) Bateman: pioneer silviculturalist.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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