arboretum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ar=bo=re=tum

CIDE DICTIONARY

arboretum, n. [L., a place grown with trees.].

 A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

arboretum, n. (pl. arboretums or arboreta) a botanical garden devoted to trees.

Etymology

L f. arbor tree

THESAURUS

arboretum

Japanese garden, afforestation, alpine garden, bed, bog garden, boondocks, border, botanical garden, bush, bushveld, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, dendrology, dry garden, flower bed, flower garden, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest, gallery forest, garden, garden spot, grape ranch, grapery, greenwood, hanger, herbarium, hortus siccus, index forest, jardin, jungle, jungles, kitchen garden, market garden, national forest, ornamental garden, palmetto barrens, paradise, park, park forest, pine barrens, pinetum, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, rock garden, roof garden, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shrubbery, shrubland, silviculture, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sunken garden, tea garden, timber, timberland, tree veld, truck garden, vegetable garden, victory garden, vinery, vineyard, virgin forest, wildwood, wood, woodland, woods

ROGET THESAURUS

arboretum

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.