dendrology

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HARRAR, ELLWOOD S. Textbook of dendrology, covering the important forest trees of the

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  1. noun The botanical study of trees and other woody plants.

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  • My brother also, it is true, sometimes assured me that he could, according to the rigor of martial justice, have me hanged on the first tree we passed; to which my prosaic answer had been, that of trees there were none in Oxford Street--[which, in imitation of Von Troil's famous chapter on the snakes of Lapland, the reader may accept, if he pleases, as a complete course of lectures on the "dendrology" of Oxford Street.] —  Autobiographical Sketches
  • Founded on the number 10. dendrology n. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • HARRAR, ELLWOOD S. Textbook of dendrology. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1968 July - December
  • Harlow, Alvin F. HARLOW, WILLIAM.M. Textbook of dendrology, covering the important forest trees of the —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
  • HARRAR, ELLWOOD S. Textbook of dendrology, covering the important forest trees of the —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
 

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  1. = French dendrologie = Portuguese dendrologia, from Greek δένδρον, a tree, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/dɛnˈdrɑlədʒi/
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