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silviculture

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.? Latin silvabor. English silva Latin -i-bor. English -i- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English silviculture From silva + -i- + culture. From Latin silva (“forest”) + cultūra (“cultivation”).

Definitions

  1. The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit.

    • Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for silviculture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA