arboretum

[ahr-buh-ree-tuhm]

Origin

Los Angeles Arboretum www.ask.com/Los+Angeles+Arboretum Search Los Angeles Arboretum Q&A for Los Angeles Arboretum

Los Angeles Arboretum www.5earch.com/Los+Angeles+Arboretum Looking for Los Angeles Arboretum? Find it here!

Arboretum California www.peeplo.com/Arboretum+California All About Arboretum California. Arboretum California in One Site!

Ads

noun, plural ar·bo·re·tums, ar·bo·re·ta

[-tuh] .

a plot of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown for study or display.

Dictionary.com's Mobile Apps www.dictionary.com/mobile Ad-Free, Offline Content, Audio Pronunciation and More! Take Millions of Words With You Everywhere. Download Now!

Origin:
1830–40; < Latin arborētum a plantation of trees, equivalent to arbor tree + -ētum suffix denoting place where a given plant grows (compare alameda)

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source

Link To Arboretum

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Arboretum is always a great word to know.

So is quincunx. Does it mean:

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Collins

World English Dictionary

arboretum (ˌɑːbəˈriːtəm)

—n , pl -ta, -tums
	a place where trees or shrubs are cultivated for their scientific or educational interest

[C19: from Latin, from arbor tree]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

arboretum

"tree-garden," 1838, from L., lit. "a place grown with trees," from arbor "tree," of unknown origin.

Word Dynamo Rating For Arboretum

People who can define Arboretum may know 11,290 words.

How many words do you know?

Remove ads like these. Upgrade now!

Related Words

pinetum

Quote Of The Day

"Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so as to get at what is fertile beneath. It would be amusing to carry the simile further. Those bulbs that flower in the sand and wither! The gay fiction annual that has to be planted again every year! Those experimental plants from Russia, France, and Greenwich Village that are always getting winter killed—confound 'em!—is it worth while planting them again? The stocky perennial that keeps coming up and coming up—so easy to grow and so ugly. Scarlet sage that gives a touch of fiery sin to the edge of the suburbanite's concrete walk! And then the good flowers—as honest as they are beautiful! The well-ordered gar den! The climbing rose that escapes and is the most beautiful of all!"

-Henry Seidel Canby