arboret

English

Noun

arboret (plural arborets)

  1. (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour

Anagrams


Romanian

arboret

Etymology 1

From Latin arborētum, equivalent to arbore + -et. Compare Aromanian arburet.

Noun

arboret n (plural arboreturi)

  1. stand (forestry: contiguous group)
  2. brush (vegetation)
  3. grove, thicket, small wood
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • subarboret

Etymology 2

From Italian alberetto

Noun

arboret n (plural arboreturi)

  1. upper part of a mast; topmast
See also
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.