arboret
English
Noun
arboret (plural arborets)
- (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost[]:
- Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.
- 1810, Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama[]:
- And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread.
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- (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour
Anagrams
- Barreto, Roberta, aborter, taborer
Romanian
arboret
Etymology 1
From Latin arborētum, equivalent to arbore + -et. Compare Aromanian arburet.
Noun
arboret n (plural arboreturi)
- stand (forestry: contiguous group)
- brush (vegetation)
- grove, thicket, small wood
Synonyms
- (grove, thicket, small wood): crâng, pădurice
Derived terms
- subarboret
Related terms
- arboret
Etymology 2
From Italian alberetto.
Noun
arboret n (plural arboreturi)
- upper part of a mast; topmast
See also
- catarg