silviculture

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From silva +‎ -i- +‎ culture. From Latin silva (forest) + cultūra (cultivation).

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silviculture (countable and uncountable, plural silvicultures)

  1. The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit; forestry.
    • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 598:
      Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.

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