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silvics

silvics noun: the study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species.

Noun

silvics (uncountable)

  1. The study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species.
    • Silviculture may be defined* as the art of producing and tending a forest; the application of the knowledge of silvics in the treatment of a forest. Silvics deals with the fundamental laws underlying the growth and development of single trees and of the forest as a biological unit.1946, Ralph Chipman Hawley, The Practice of Silviculture, J. Wiley & Sons, page 1
    • "Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States," Agriculture Handbook 271, was the first comprehensive document of its kind in the United States. […] The original "silvics manual" took 10 years to complete and was published in 1965.1990, Jerry A. Sesco, Foreword, Russell M. Burns, Barbara H. Honkala, Silvics of North America, Volume 1: Conifers, Agriculture Handbook 654, US Department of Agriculture, page iii

Origin of silvics

From silva (“forest”) + -ics, from Latin silva.

Questions about silvics

What does silvics mean?
Silvics means the study of the characteristics of trees, including especially their role in the ecology of their forest habitats; such information collected about individual trees and tree species.
What part of speech is silvics?
Silvics is a noun.

Words near silvics in the dictionary

  1. silvic acid
  2. silvical
  3. silvicide
  4. silvicides
  5. silvicolous
  6. silvics
  7. silvicultural
  8. silviculturally
  9. silviculture
  10. silvicultures
  11. silviculturist

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