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silviculture

silviculture noun: the care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit.

Noun

silviculture (countable and uncountable, plural silvicultures)

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

silviculture meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Vietnamese

silviculture in Hindi

forestry
वनवर्धन vanvardhan

silviculture in Tamil

மரவளர்ப்புக்கலை

silviculture in Vietnamese

forestry
lâm nghiệp

Synonyms of silviculture

Forms of silviculture

pluralsilvicultures

Origin of silviculture

From silvi- + culture. From Latin silva (“forest”) + cultūra (“cultivation”).

Words formed from silviculture

Questions about silviculture

What does silviculture mean?
Silviculture means the care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit.
What is silviculture in Hindi?
Silviculture in Hindi is वनवर्धन (vanvardhan). See Silviculture meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is silviculture?
Silviculture is a noun.
What is the plural of silviculture?
The plural of silviculture is silvicultures.

Words near silviculture in the dictionary

  1. silvicides
  2. silvicolous
  3. silvics
  4. silvicultural
  5. silviculturally
  6. silviculture
  7. silvicultures
  8. silviculturist
  9. silviculturists
  10. silvimetric
  11. silvimetrics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: silviculture (page history and authors); silviculture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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