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arboretum

[ ahr-buh-ree-tuhm ]

noun

plural arboretums, arboreta
  1. a plot of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown for study or display.


arboretum

/ ˌɑ˲úəˈ°ù¾±Ë³ÙÉ™³¾ /

noun

  1. a place where trees or shrubs are cultivated for their scientific or educational interest
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of arboretum1

1830–40; < Latin ²¹°ù²ú´Ç°ùŧ³Ù³Ü³¾ a plantation of trees, equivalent to arbor tree + -ŧ³Ù³Ü³¾ suffix denoting place where a given plant grows ( alameda )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of arboretum1

C19: from Latin, from arbor tree
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Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.

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Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, are working to conserve trees across the world by collecting seeds and growing specimens in arboretums.

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Peterson tasted his first pawpaw, from a wild growing tree, in his university's arboretum as a graduate student studying plant genetics.

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Seattle Parks and Recreation doesn’t have funds now to develop its 22-acre “North Entrance Project†where the ruins meet the arboretum.

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He lives there in a stone-walled house he calls Stargate Manor, a temple of expensive kitsch with its own arboretum, chapel — where George prays to Jesus, Buddha and Mother Nature — and waiting sarcophagus.

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