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arboriculture

Cultivation of trees, shrubs, and woody plants for shading and decorating. Arboriculture includes all aspects of growing, maintaining, and identifying plants, arranging plantings for their ornamental values, and removing trees. The well-being of individual plants is the major concern of arboriculture, in contrast to such related fields as forestry and agriculture, in which the major concern is the welfare of a large group of plants as a whole.

arboriculture
the cultivation of trees or shrubs, esp for the production of timber
arboriculture [¦är·bə·rə¦kəl·chər]
(botany)
The cultivation of ornamental trees and shrubs.
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