arboret

English

Noun

arboret (plural arborets)

1. (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost‎^[[1]]:

     Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.

   • 1810, Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama‎^[[2]]:

     And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread.

2. (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour

Anagrams

• Barreto, Roberta, aborter, taborer

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Romanian

arboret

Etymology 1

From Latin arborētum, equivalent to arbore +‎ -et. Compare Aromanian arburet.

Noun

arboret n (plural arboreturi)

1. stand (forestry: contiguous group)
2. brush (vegetation)
3. grove, thicket, small wood

Synonyms

• (grove, thicket, small wood): crâng, pădurice

Derived terms

• subarboret

Related terms

• arboret

Etymology 2

From Italian alberetto

Noun

arboret n (plural arboreturi)

1. upper part of a mast; topmast

See also

• catarg