Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woody branching plant without a distinct trunk.
- noun A treatise on the woody plants of any region; a sylva.
- noun A copse of shrubs or trees; an orchard or arboretum.
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Examples
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At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit. incedunt arbusta per alta, securibus caedunt, percellunt magnas quercus, exciditur ilex, fraxinus frangitur atque abies consternitur alta, 15 pinus proceras peruortunt: omne sonabat arbustum fremitu siluai frondosai. vi
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_Qui vineam, vel arbustum constituere volet, seminaria prius facere debebit_, was the precept of Columella, l.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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7 Vinea est prima, ... secundo loco hortus inriguus, tertio salictum, quarto oletum, quinto pratum, sexto campus frumentarius, septimo silva caedua, octavo arbustum, nono glandaria silva.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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n. - dwarf tree; shrub-like tree. arbuscular, adj. arbustum
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
fbharjo commented on the word arbustum
orchard
February 3, 2007