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arboret

arboret noun: a small tree or shrub.

Noun

arboret (plural arborets)

  1. (obsolete) A small tree or shrub.
    • No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
  2. (obsolete) A grove, shrubbery or arbour

Forms of arboret

pluralarborets

Questions about arboret

What does arboret mean?
Arboret means a small tree or shrub.
What part of speech is arboret?
Arboret is a noun.
What is the plural of arboret?
The plural of arboret is arborets.

Words near arboret in the dictionary

  1. arborescent
  2. arborescently
  3. arboresces
  4. arborescing
  5. arboresque
  6. arboret
  7. arboreta
  8. arborets
  9. arboretum
  10. arboretums
  11. arborglyph

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