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arboretum
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arboretum \Ar`bo*re"tum\, n.; pl. Arboreta. [L., a place grown with trees.] A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tree-garden," 1838, from Latin arboretum, literally "a place grown with trees," from arbor "tree," which is of unknown origin, + -etum, suffix used to form the names of gardens and woods.
Wiktionary
n. A place where many variety of tree are grown for research, educational, and ornamental purposes.
WordNet
n. a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition [syn: botanical garden]
[also: arboreta (pl)]
Wikipedia
An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum (from the Latin frutex, meaning shrub), and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study. An arboretum specializing in growing conifers is known as a pinetum. Other specialist arboreta include saliceta (willows), populeta, and querceta (oaks).
The term arboretum was first used in an English publication by John Claudius Loudon in 1833 in The Gardener's Magazine but the concept was already long-established by then.
Arboretum is a predominantly residential neighborhood located in Northeast Washington, D.C., tucked into the corner of the National Arboretum. The tiny neighborhood is bounded by New York Avenue NE to the north, R Street NE to the south. The residential area is located North of the National Arboretum and east of Bladensburg Road. It includes the apartment community and three blocks of detached bungalow style homes.
The neighborhood includes the Arboretum Community Center with several gardens and play areas. The Arboretum Neighborhood Association is the neighborhood's community organization.
Category:Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.
The Arboretum is an upmarket retail trade area in the northwest portion of Austin, Texas, centered roughly on the convergence of U.S. Route 183 (which, as it travels through Austin, is a freeway known as Research Boulevard), Capital of Texas Highway and Mopac Expressway.
An arboretum is a collection of trees.
Arboretum may also refer to:
- Arboretum (Austin, Texas), a retail trade area in Austin, Texas
- Arboretum (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
- The Arboretum, Nottingham, a residential area in Nottingham, England
- The Arboretum, Charlotte, a neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Arboretum (Derby ward), an electoral ward in Derby, England
- Arboretum Zürich, is a botanical garden, public park and arboretum in the Swiss city of Zürich
Arboretum is an electoral ward in the city of Derby, England. It includes Derby city centre and the inner city suburbs of Pear Tree and Rose Hill, as well as part of Normanton. It covers much of the area of the historic township of Litchurch. The ward, which takes its name from Derby Arboretum in Rose Hill, had a population of 18,590 in 2011.
Usage examples of "arboretum".
As he left the arboretum, Rousseau knew there were some people he should find and some things he should say.
With forced nonchalance, he stopped in the arboretum for a stroll through the greenery, then at the observation lounge for a nightcap.
Mixed into the wind it reminded him of the laughter he had heard in the arboretum when he had come upon the duchess and the King.
Everyone in the palace knows of the locked arboretum, though none, I think, suspect what I do.
Plunging into the deep shade of the arboretum, I noticed that the leaves overhead were so thick, hardly any sunlight at all was allowed to get through.
But it was at least ten degrees cooler in the arboretum than it was in the rest of the park.
I had a good idea that whatever lecturing there was to do on the subject of Will sitting in the woods listening to medieval music, Lance and Jennifer had already covered that day I saw them in the arboretum with him.
I once saw her gallop down a steep hill in the Arboretum to escape a dog, a German shepherd puppy that had trotted up to her, its tail wagging, for a head pat.
They had then repaved the lot, and put the dwarf arboretum of parking meters back in place.
Base I was designed for long stays, so the corridors were wide and frequently cut through arboretums or gardens with fishponds and lawns.
Rogo for walks in Clarendon Park, an indoor arboretum with some flowers and trees and a small aviary, all housed under a geodesic dome at the edge of Clarendon Level.
But every cloud city has its life banks, zoos, arboreta, and dioramas.
In his first weeks at the lab, and in the company arboretum on Hunt plateau, he focused on the new plant species to the exclusion of everything else, content to work his way up to the bigger picture in due time.
By and large the Zone's northwestern boundary has remained well south of Huntington Drive, with most of the thrust going down into the lower San Gabriel Valley, places like Monterey Park and Rosemead and South El Monte, but here it is suddenly jumping a couple of miles on the diagonal up the other way with lava popping up on the far side of Huntington, practically to the edge of the racetrack and the Arboretum and quite possibly cutting the 210 in half.
Having been mined out, that level was now used as an arboretum to grow trees for reforestation projects around Sudbury.